CBS News

===Television===
Upon becoming commercial station WCBW (channel 2, now [[WCBS-TV]]) in 1941, the pioneer CBS television station in New York City broadcast two daily news programs, at 2:30&nbsp;p.m. and 7:30&nbsp;p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell (journalist). Most of the newscasts featured Hubbell reading a script with only occasional cutaways to a map or still photograph. When [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor was bombed]] on December 7, 1941, WCBW (which was usually off the air on Sunday to give the engineers a day off), took to the air at 8:45&nbsp;p.m. with an extensive special report. The national emergency even broke down the unspoken wall between CBS radio and television. WCBW executives convinced radio announcers and experts such as George Fielding Elliot and Linton Wells to come down to the Grand Central studios during the evening and give information and commentary on the attack. The WCBW special report that night lasted less than 90 minutes. But that special broadcast pushed the limits of live television in 1941 and opened up new possibilities for future broadcasts. As CBS wrote in a special report to the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC), the unscheduled live news broadcast on December 7 "was unquestionably the most stimulating challenge and marked the greatest advance of any single problem faced up to that time."

Additional newscasts were scheduled in the early days of the war. In May 1942, WCBW (like almost all television stations) sharply cut back its live program schedule and the newscasts were canceled, since the station temporarily suspended studio operations, resorting exclusively to the occasional broadcast of films. This was primarily because much of the staff had either joined the service or were redeployed to war related technical research, and to prolong the life of the early, unstable cameras which were now impossible to repair due to the wartime lack of parts.
[[File:Douglas Edwards With the News CBS 1952.JPG|thumb|200px|Douglas Edwards on the CBS news set in 1952.]]
In May 1944, as the war began to turn in favor of the Allies, WCBW reopened the studios and the newscasts returned, briefly anchored by [[Ned Calmer]], and then by Everett Holles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/7533_h.jpg|title=Everett Holles 1944 WCBW Newscast|access-date=6 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906063204/http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/7533_h.jpg|archive-date=6 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the war, expanded news programs appeared on the WCBW schedule – whose call letters were changed to WCBS-TV in 1946 – first anchored by Milo Boulton, and later by [[Douglas Edwards]]. On May 3, 1948, Edwards began anchoring ''CBS Television News'', a regular 15-minute nightly newscast on the CBS television network, including WCBS-TV. It aired every weeknight at 7:30&nbsp;p.m., and was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor (the nightly [[Lowell Thomas]] NBC radio network newscast was simulcast on television locally on NBC's WNBT—now [[WNBC]]—for a time in the early 1940s and the previously mentioned Richard Hubbell, Ned Calmer, Everett Holles and Milo Boulton on WCBW in the early and mid-1940s, but these were local television broadcasts seen only in New York City). [[NBC]]'s offering at the time, ''NBC Television Newsreel'' (which premiered in February 1948), was simply film footage with voice narration.

In 1948, CBS Radio's seasoned journalist Edmund Chester emerged as the television network's new Director of News Special Events and Sports.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/16/archives/edmund-chester-75-exdirectoratcbs.html |title=''The New York Times'' - "Obituary: "Edmund Chester, 75, Ex-Directorate C.B.S.", October 16, 1973 p. 46 on nytimes.com |work=The New York Times |date=October 16, 1973 |access-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-date=January 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113182039/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/16/archives/edmund-chester-75-exdirectoratcbs.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jWTHk3s4c8C&q=Edmund++Chester+ |title=''As It Happened: A Memoir'' William S. Paley. Doubleday, New York. 1979 p. 375 Edmund Chester - Director of CBS News on books.google |isbn=9780385146395 |access-date=March 14, 2023 |archive-date=April 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405174041/https://books.google.com/books?id=-jWTHk3s4c8C&q=Edmund++Chester+ |url-status=live |last1=Paley |first1=William Samuel |year=1979 |publisher=Doubleday }}</ref> Soon thereafter in 1949, he collaborated with one of CBS' original [[Murrow Boys]] named [[Larry LeSueur]] to produce the innovative news series ''United Nations In Action''. Underwritten by the Ford Motor Company as a public service, these broadcasts endeavored to provide live coverage of the proceedings of the [[United Nations General Assembly]] from its interim headquarters in Lake Success, New York.<ref>''The New York Times'', November 4, 1949, pg. 50</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/television-broadcast-of-a-new-series-reporting-the-sessions-news-photo/647173796?adppopup=true |title=''United Nations in Action'': Photograph of Edmund Chester, Larry LaSueur, Lyman Bryson at the interim headquarters of the UN General Assembly Lake Success, NY, March 8,1949 ongettyimages.com |date=March 2, 2017 |access-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-date=January 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113182015/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/television-broadcast-of-a-new-series-reporting-the-sessions-news-photo/647173796?adppopup=true |url-status=live }}</ref> They proved to be highly successful and were honored with the prestigious [[George Foster Peabody Award]] for Television News in 1949.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/united-nations-in-action/ |title="United Nations In Action" Peabody Award (1949) on peabodyawards.com |access-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-date=January 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113190229/https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/united-nations-in-action/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
        
In 1950, the name of the nightly newscast was changed to ''Douglas Edwards with the News'', and the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, prompting Edwards to use the greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast." The broadcast was renamed the ''[[CBS Evening News]]'' when [[Walter Cronkite]] replaced Edwards in 1962.<ref>"The Origins of Television News in America" by Mike Conway. Chapter: "The Birth of CBS-TV News: Columbia's Ambitious Experiment at the Advent of U.S. Commercial Television". (Peter Lang Publishing, New York NY).</ref> Edwards remained with CBS News with various daytime television newscasts and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on April 1, 1988.

From the 1990s until 2014, CBS News operated its own production unit CBS News Productions, to produce alternative programming for cable networks,<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connell |first=Mikey |date=2014-01-24 |title=CBS News Closes Productions Shingle, Most Staff Staying On |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cbs-news-closes-productions-shingle-673796/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> and CBS EyeToo Productions (later CBS Eye Productions), a company that produced documentaries and nonfiction programs.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-11-12 |title=The Ticker: CBS, Bloomberg, NBC… |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-ticker-cbs-bloomberg-nbc/22786/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=www.adweek.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

CBS News ran cable channel [[CBS Eye on People]] from 1997 to 2000 and Spanish-language channel [[CBS Telenoticias]] from 1996 to 1998.

In 2021, CBS News had set up its own production unit See It Now Studios, to be headed up by [[Susan Zirinsky]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=2021-09-08 |title=CBS News Launches New Production Entity See It Now Studios Headed By Susan Zirinsky |url=https://deadline.com/2021/09/cbs-news-susan-zirinsky-production-company-susan-zirinsky-1234828901/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Deadline |language=en-US |archive-date=June 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622054529/https://deadline.com/2021/09/cbs-news-susan-zirinsky-production-company-susan-zirinsky-1234828901/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2022, CBS News hired former Donald Trump administration official [[Mick Mulvaney]] as a paid on-air contributor.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Barr |first=Jeremy |date=2022-03-30 |title=Turmoil at CBS News over Trump aide Mick Mulvaney's punditry gig |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/30/cbs-mulvaney-backlash/ |access-date=2022-03-31 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331073651/https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/30/cbs-mulvaney-backlash/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Mulvaney's hiring stirred controversy within the company due to his history of promoting Trump's false claims and attacking the press.<ref name=":1" /> CBS News co-president [[Neeraj Khemlani]] told CBS morning show staff: "If you look at some of the people that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms".<ref name=":1" />