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‘CBS Evening News’ Revamp Unveiled: John Dickerson & Maurice DuBois To Anchor From New York With Focus On Ensemble Team
The network plans to add a weather segment and regular reports from Margaret Brennan
Norah O’Donnell, who has anchored the newscast for the past five years, announced earlier this week that she is stepping down after the election to serve as a senior correspondent focused on major one-on-one interviews and longform reporting. The changes are a departure from the solo anchor format that has been a standard feature of CBS Evening News throughout its history, save for a brief and ill-fated effort to pair Connie Chung with Dan Rather in the 1990s. “With Norah’s decision to take on a new role at CBS, we’ve decided to rethink and redesign the Evening News, driven by our goals to maximize the power of our people and our most important franchises, to produce courageous and distinctive journalism that informs and enlightens, and finally, to compete aggressively… on broadcast and beyond,” McMahon said.
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