A New Day at CBS This Morning
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The next era of CBS This Morning kicks off….ummmm…. this morning.
Gone are Noarh O’Donnell and John Dickerson with Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil taking their place alongside Gayle King.
The CBS Morning show has drawn critical acclaim for focusing on harder news topics, but still lags way beind in the ratings.
Even though the talent is changing, the hard news focus will remain. Viewers still won’t be seeing an abundance of cooking segments or summer concert series. “We are certainly not going to be doing less news,” Diana Miller, the show’s new Executive Producer. says “In this day and age, there’s no shortage of it.”
Variety writes that David Begnaud, who gained notice for his recent coverage of hurricane-torn Puerto Rico, becomes the show’s lead national correspondent. Jericka Duncan becomes a national correspondent. Vladimir Duthiers will give a first look at each day’s most talked-about stories. And Anna Werner will serve as a consumer investigative correspondent.
“We really want this to be the team you can trust – not just the anchor team, but also with the addition of these great reporters,” says Miller, noting that on-air personnel will focus not only on bringing viewers the news of the day, but spotlight why stories matter to viewers. Viewers can expect to see regular segments looking at consumer, medical and financial news. Producers will manage things so that the anchors and correspondents will have time to get into the field, as well as pursue some investigations.
