Veteran producer Kim Harvey has been tapped to take over the “CBS Night Information,” which has misplaced viewers since a latest revamp.
The community introduced Thursday that Harvey will change Man Campanile, a “60 Minutes” producer who joined this system final yr.
Campanile, who was introduced on by former “60 Minutes” govt producer Invoice Owens when he oversaw latest adjustments on the newscast, will return to the newsmagazine.
“CBS Night Information” has been struggling to retain viewers because it changed Norah O’Donnell, who held the anchor chair for 5 years.
Kim Harvey is the brand new govt producer of “CBS Night Information.”
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CBS Information added John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois as co-anchors and put an emphasis on longer tales nearer to the type of “60 Minutes.” However this system has failed to achieve any traction in opposition to ABC’s “World Information Tonight With David Muir” and NBC’s “Nightly Information With Tom Llamas.”
Harvey’s appointment is probably going a precursor to bigger adjustments on the program, together with a doable return to a single anchor and a extra conventional method to the newscast. She was a trusted lieutenant of O’Donnell throughout her run.
Harvey has been with “CBS Night Information” since 2017, ultimately rising to senior broadcast producer. She is totally accustomed to the operation that has gone by three anchor adjustments since she arrived.
“Kim brings a pointy information sense and terrific observe report of manufacturing from throughout the printed and cable networks,” CBS Information President Tom Cibrowski stated in an announcement. “She is a well-respected newsroom chief and her relationships with our on-air expertise, producers and reporters run deep.”
Harvey’s profession contains stints on the three main cable information networks. She began her profession as a video journalist at CNN.
She spent a number of years at Fox Information, the place she produced “The O’Reilly Issue,” which was the community’s high prime time program earlier than host Invoice O’Reilly was ousted over sexual harassment allegations.
At MSNBC, Harvey was a part of the crew that launched “The Rachel Maddow Present” and “All In with Chris Hayes.”
The way forward for CBS Information has been a topic of a lot hypothesis for the reason that community’s dad or mum firm Paramount World was taken over by Skydance Media.
Earlier than the merger closed, Paramount World agreed to pay $16 million to settle President Trump’s authorized salvo in opposition to “60 Minutes” over the enhancing of an interview together with his 2024 opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris. The lawsuit, thought of frivolous by 1st Modification specialists, broken the morale of the information division and certain led to the ouster of Owens in April.
The brand new house owners have additionally promised the Federal Communications Fee that it’s going to rent an ombudsman who will report back to Paramount’s new president, Jeff Shell.
