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news division of the American television and radio service CBS

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Division of: CBS
Key people: David Ellison (Chairman/CEO) ‍ Tom Cibrowski (President) ‍ Bari Weiss (Editor-in-chief)
Founded: September 18, 1927 ; 98 years ago ( 1927-09-18 )
Headquarters: CBS Broadcast Center , 530 West 57th Street , New York City , New York 10019, U.S.
Area served: Worldwide
Television broadcast programs: CBS News Roundup CBS News Mornings CBS Mornings CBS Evening News CBS Saturday Morning CBS Weekend News 48 Hours CBS News Sunday Morning Face the Nation 60 Minutes
Parent: CBS News and Stations
Official website: cbsnews .com
Streaming news network: cbsnews .com /live

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CBS News is the news division of the American television broadcaster CBS headquartered in New York City. Along with ABC News and NBC News, it has long been among the big three broadcast news networks in the United States.

CBS News emerged as a radio news broadcast service in 1929. In 1933, Paul W. White was named head of the news division and saw it through World War II where it provided an alternative to Nazi propaganda. Its first television broadcasts began in 1941 with WCBW in New York City. In 1962, Walter Cronkite became anchor of its flagship television news program, the newly renamed to CBS Evening News. In 2025, CBS News transferred ownership as part of Paramount's merger with Skydance Media and Kenneth R. Weinstein (the former CEO of the Hudson Institute, a conservative foreign policy think tank) was assigned as ombudsman to the news division. In October 2025, Bari Weiss was appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News, which was interpreted by critics as a sign the organization was shifting politically rightward.