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Connie Chung says she was caught off-guard when she heard the news on Sunday: Dan Rather, "The CBS Evening News's former solo act," would appear Monday night without her. Chung's abrupt removal as co-anchor of the once-vaunted newscastends an uneasy two-year partnership during which viewership plunged. (She turned down a demotion to weekend anchor.) Now, with equally grim prospects for her weekly news magazine, "Eye to Eye with Connie Chung," she's looking to get out. "I'm asking for a mutually agreeable separation," she said. "I'm hopeful." At the end of Monday...
Veteran CBS reporter and "60 Minutes" co-anchor Mike Wallace will receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism next month at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
Come next October, PBS's venerable MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour will become, simply, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Co-anchor Robert MacNeil announced he would retire next year after 20 years for budgetary as well as personal reasons...
...just about everybody in the industry would salute." Diller, a high-profile schmoozer to whom networking is both a pleasure and a job description, was quickly at ease in the company he hopes will be his big new home. The day the deal was announced, he called Evening News co-anchor Dan Rather for a chat and was escorted around the network's New York City broadcast center on 57th Street by Howard Stringer, CBS's Broadcast Group president. Tisch said Stringer would stay on in the new regime. And Diller, who has often castigated the bigger networks as boring...
...career blackmail so heinous, that it cannot be turned into career opportunities and comic mulch. Jackson had not been charged with so much as laying a glove on the boy, yet respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told...