Andrew Heyward News Quotations

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.

CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report,

The accusation that there was bias in CBS News' reporting of election night results is completely without foundation.

feel bound by the traditional definition of what makes a CBS News anchor.

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.

In today's environment, the audience expects to be more directly connected to news providers than it did historically and I think that's a good thing, ... We all felt strongly that letting people know that we are willing to engage in a healthy dialogue about what we do we think will enhance our reputation and give us a competitive advantage.