Norah O’Donnell leaving as anchor of CBS evening newscast after election

2024-12-25 21:48:04 source:lotradecoin leverage category:News

Norah O’Donnell is leaving as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” after the presidential election, she announced on Tuesday.

O’Donnell has been top anchor of the newscast for five years and prior to that anchored the network’s morning show. She told CBS News colleagues in an email that it’s time to do something different after time spent “tied to a daily broadcast and the rigors of a relentless news cycle.”

She said she is staying with CBS News to contribute interviews and other stories, but in a role not fully defined. CBS says it is committed to the broadcast continuing, but gave no indication of who will be replacing her.

The “CBS Evening News,” the perch from which Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather held forth for many years, generally runs third in the network ratings behind ABC’s “World News Tonight” with David Muir and the “NBC Nightly News” with Lester Holt.

More:News

Recommend

'September 5' depicts shocking day when terrorism arrived at the Olympics

On Sept. 5, 1972, Munich's Summer Olympics morphed in a gut-wrenching instant from the world's bigge

Ex- Virginia cop who killed shoplifting suspect acquitted of manslaughter, guilty on firearm charge

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary ma

How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team 

When disaster affects the sprawling industrial complexes of Texas, the state’s environmental authori