In another major defection from the newsroom of Fox News, Catherine Herridge is joining CBS News as a senior investigative correspondent. 'I feel privileged to join a team where facts and storytelling will always matter,' she said.
Herridge, Fox's chief intelligence correspondent, was a founding employee of Fox News in 1996 and a leader in the network's Washington bureau. She was in talks to join CBS before Shep Smith, also a founding Fox employee, resigned on October 11 in the middle of a multi-year contract, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. Catherine Herridge is leaving Fox News for CBS.Herridge's Fox contract expired over the summer.
"In a statement released through CBS, Herridge also invoked the importance of facts, but in a way that could be interpreted as a criticism of Fox:"CBS News has always placed a premium on enterprise journalism and powerful investigations," she said."I feel privileged to join a team where facts and storytelling will always matter."Read MoreCBS said she will begin her new role in November.
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