Do You Know the Way to Tel Aviv? For CBS, via London

Shortly after 1:30 a.m. on the night of Dec. 29, CBS News foreign correspondent Mark Phillips stood on a rooftop, overlooking the city of Tel Aviv. Lights from the city’s skyline flickered behind him. Through an earpiece, he listened to anchor Maggie Rodriguez, who was sitting in a studio in New York, filling in for Read More

News Producers Gird Their Loins For ‘Giga Tuesday’

On the first weekend in February, Katie Couric and her CBS News colleagues will run through a mock election, complete with fake returns, and pseudo projections: a Super Rehearsal for Super Tuesday.

Paul Friedman, senior vice president for CBS News, recently explained to NYTV that CBS will use the weekend rehearsal to tune up Read More

Katie Go-Nightly

Katie Couric, the anchor of the CBS Evening News, was in Georgia on Friday, Jan. 5, in a car parked outside a Nathan’s hot-dog stand. It was two days before her 50th birthday, just after 1 p.m.

At the moment, Ms. Couric was occupied on her cell phone, discussing the Bush administration’s claim, trotted out Read More