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26-03-2025
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Rita Braver will retire from 'CBS Sunday Morning' after 50 years at the network
After 50 years on CBS News, where she "grew up" as a journalist, Rita Braver is heading into retirement. The award-winning "CBS Sunday Morning" national correspondent will retire at the end of March, per a memo that Rand Morrison, the program's executive producer, sent to staff Wednesday. "It's time to share some news that most of us already know but are reluctant to accept. Our beloved, longtime Sunday Morning colleague… national correspondent Rita Braver will retire at the end of this month," Morrison's memo, which was obtained by USA TODAY, began. "Those who know Rita and Sunday Morning realize how essential she's been to our work. ... To call it this end of an era barely does justice to the challenges we'll face now that we can no longer pick up the phone and call on Rita," the note continued. Braver embarked on her broadcast journalism career at the New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV and was hired as a news desk editor at CBS News' Washington bureau in 1972. She worked her way up to chief White House correspondent in 1993, then was named a national correspondent in 1997 During her tenure, she worked on programs such as "48 Hours," "Street Stories," "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel," "Face the Nation" and "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather." She contributed "Eye on America" segments for "CBS Evening News," where she also served as chief law correspondent from 1983 to 1993. 'God-like days' are over: Why Norah O'Donnell, Hoda Kotb, Lester Holt and more have exited Braver, who has interviewed big names from former Presidents Bill Clinton to Gloria Steinem, U.S. Rep John Lewis, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor and Sheryl Crow, celebrated a half century with the broadcaster in 2022. "Over the years, I got to cover some of the biggest events of my lifetime, starting – when I was just an apprentice on the news desk – with Watergate," she said in a "CBS Sunday Morning" segment that aired May 15, 2022. "When I started, we shot our stories on 16 millimeter film. If we needed to call in from the field, we had to find a pay phone. There were no computers, much less internet. Yet, we got our stories in every day." TV news exodus: All the anchors exiting their roles, including Lester Holt and Joy Reid She concluded the segment by saying, "That first day was really the beginning of my 50-year love-affair with CBS News. Like my marriage, which started about the same time, it's had its highs and lows, some exasperating moments, and some too magical to ever forget. "Yet, I count myself lucky, after all these years, to have the kind of job I always dreamed about." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Rita Braver to retire from CBS News after 50 years
Yahoo
26-03-2025
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Rita Braver, ‘Sunday Morning' Mainstay on CBS, Plans to Retire
Rita Braver, who has logged more than half a century at CBS News and is known for her reporting on 'CBS Sunday Morning,' plans to retire from the Paramount Global news operation at the end of March, according to a memo sent to staffers Wednesday. 'In her decades at Sunday Morning, she's done it all: breaking news… soft features… political issue pieces… stories on art and theater… personality profiles…If we had a story, Rita always had the interest… and always made the time,' said Rand Morrison, the long-running series' executive producer, in the memo. More from Variety CBS Asks FCC to Dismiss 'News Distortion' Complaint Over '60 Minutes' Harris Interview as 'Blatant Interference With Free Speech' CBS News Names Tom Cibrowski President, Executive Editor CBS News Mulls Veteran Tom Cibrowski for Senior Role (EXCLUSIVE) More to come… Best of Variety The Best Celebrity Memoirs to Read This Year: From Chelsea Handler to Anthony Hopkins New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Oscars 2026: First Blind Predictions Including Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, 'Wicked: For Good' and More
