The anchor will stay with the network and move into a role conducting high-profile interviews for a variety of CBS programs.
Norah O'Donnell at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington in April 2022. After only five years in the role, CBS News journalist Norah O’Donnell will step down as anchor of the network’s evening news show after the presidential election in November, she told surprised CBS colleagues on Tuesday afternoon.
“There’s so much work to be proud of!” she wrote in a memo that was obtained by The Washington Post. But noting the “rigors of a relentless news cycle” during her combined 12 years as a daily anchor — CBS’s morning news show before “Evening News” — she added that “it’s time to do something different.
O’Donnell, who is currently the only female host of a broadcast evening news show, ascended to the role as anchor and managing editor of “CBS Evening News” with some fanfare in the summer of 2019. O’Donnell said she will be anchoring CBS’s election coverage as well as any candidate debate the network might host.
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