CBS News President Names Norah O'Donnell 'CBS Evening Morning' Anchor, Unveils New Weekday Anchor Lineup | THR News - video Dailymotion

“This is a start of a new era for CBS News,” said the network's president and senior executive producer Susan Zirinsky.

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00:00So you might have been reading about all the speculation. We thought today would be a good day

00:04to hear it from the horse's mouth. Hello, horses.

00:06It's official. Big changes are coming to CBS News. The news organization unveiled a new

00:11weekday anchor lineup, naming Nora O'Donnell anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening

00:17News, and Gail King, Anthony Mason, and Tony DeCupol co-hosts of CBS This Morning.

00:22The new morning team takes over May 20, while the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell will

00:26debut this summer in New York, before moving to its new permanent home in Washington, D.C.

00:31O'Donnell had this to say about her new job during Monday's CBS This Morning.

00:35I think about the legacy. I think about the history of CBS News, and it's incredibly humbling

00:40to accept this position, and so I'm going to give this everything I've got.

00:45Now, moving the evening news to Washington, D.C. is a bold and expensive move that executives

00:49hope will boost the broadcast and infuse it with a renewed sense of urgency, as well as

00:54give the show a leg up in access to top lawmakers. It's also where O'Donnell, a married mom of

00:58three, was based prior to joining CBS This Morning in 2012. And while working in New York,

01:03she has been shuttling back to Washington on weekends. For more on this story and to watch

01:07the full televised announcement, head to THR.com. Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,

01:12I'm Tiffany Taylor.