Good Afternoon,

For those of you not on our Evening News call, I wanted to share some news that I just shared with our team.

After this year’s election, I’ve decided I will be leaving my role as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News to take on a new position at the network. We just celebrated an amazing five years together. I love what I do, and I am so fortunate to work with the best journalists and people in the business. Together, our team has won Emmy, Murrow, and DuPont awards. We managed to anchor in-studio through COVID; we took the broadcast on the road from aircraft carriers to the Middle East, and around the world. We were privileged to conduct a historic interview with Pope Francis. There’s so much work to be proud of! But I have spent 12 years in the anchor chair here at CBS News, connected to a daily broadcast and the rigors of a relentless news cycle. It’s time to do something different. This presidential election will be my seventh as a journalist, and for many of us in this business we tend to look at our careers in terms of these milestone events.

I’ll still be anchoring all of our major coverage this year, election night and hopefully a debate! Beyond that, I’m pleased to share that I have made a long-term commitment to CBS News to continue to do the same storytelling and big interviews that have been our hallmark. I will continue to contribute to Evening News and all of our news broadcasts, including 60 Minutes. 

I don’t need to tell you what a transformative time our business is facing. I see this as an opportunity.  I want to thank Wendy McMahon as this new role will also allow me to extend the reach of the work we do to new audiences in new ways. Those interviews and reporting will be shared across the many platforms CBS offers - streaming, digital, primetime, Paramount+, and more. And in fact, we have a big interview coming up that I hope to share more details about very soon. 

We have a lot of work to do covering the most important election of our lifetime. My final nights on the Evening News broadcast are still a long way away, and we will have plenty of time to celebrate our accomplishments. As some of you have heard me say before — the quality of your life is built on the quality of your relationships. I am so grateful for OURS.

Our broadcast was nominated for an Emmy this year for “Outstanding Live News Program,” and make no mistake that is because we have the best producers, correspondents, crews, and technical teams. On the Sunday afternoon that President Biden dropped his re-election bid, our CBS News teams ended their weekends early, hustled into work and produced nearly 6 hours straight of live television with new reporting. I am constantly in awe of the professionalism and skill of this team. 

Thank you for all that you do for our broadcast and our audience every single day. There’s nothing more important to me than making sure we cover this election with the excellence and humanity that defines our work together.  I’m so fortunate to share those values with so many hard-working journalists who believe how important the work of journalism is to a healthy democracy. Onward!

Norah