Andrew Heyward
Andrew Heyward
Andrew Heyward is a former President of CBS News, serving from January 1996 until early November 2005. Currently, he is a principal at MarketspaceNext and Heyward Advisory LLC, where he works with clients to create and strengthen original online content, make more effective use of broadband video, deepen engagement through online communities, and develop new business models for the digital era...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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The accusation that there was bias in CBS News' reporting of election night results is completely without foundation.
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feel bound by the traditional definition of what makes a CBS News anchor.
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CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report,
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He has symbolized the 'CBS Evening News' for nearly a quarter century, ... He'll continue to apply his talents to everything he does at CBS News.
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When you take a genre that is this entrenched and become the worldwide standard for how a news program is done and you start looking at alternative ways to do it, it's a challenging process, ... You have a core audience that is used to things a certain way that you don't want to alienate, but you also want to attract a new audience. We're trying to balance those two things.
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That's totally ridiculous, ... I would say on a scale of 1 to 100 that had zero to do with it. The organization has moved on.
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Just as the enormity of Katrina has created a new context for Rita, it has also done so for us,
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We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.
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There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.
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We could not have asked for a more inspirational partner to create an equally inspirational and entertaining DVD series.
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It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.
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This is Leslie wanting a change and so do I.
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It's not a casting call. This is not a test of who should be on the evening news. It's a test of how best to present a broadcast that plays a distinctive and important role in today's crowded news landscape.
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Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.