Andrew Heyward Steps Out

By: Vaughn Ververs
Topics: CBS News Issues

Big changes afoot at CBS News with the announcement today that President Andrew Heyward will leave his position when his contract is up at the end of the year. In conjunction, CBS announced that CBS Sports President Sean McManus will replace Heyward at the news division while retaining his position within the sports division.

As of this morning, there's plenty of buzz surrounding these announcements and Public Eye will be here to help sort it all out so stay tuned.

I want to take this opportunity to note the important role Heyward has played in the creation of Public Eye. Not every news division president welcomes the kind of introspection and questioning PE is here to facilitate, but Heyward possessed the foresight and guts to not only cooperate with us, but support our mission. For that, he deserves credit and our thanks.

Much more to come …

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by ejpasseos October 26, 2005 2:52 PM EDT: If Mr. Heyward saw the light on the Public Eye, than kudos to him.; Reply to this comment


by jrpcbs October 26, 2005 2:44 PM EDT: Fascinating. Good luck to the new guy - I hope he does a good job at putting your news division back on track to something resembling credibility. I would hope McManus will have the cojones to publically admit what Heyward admitted to Bernie Goldberg in private (about the fact that the networks bias left), and then proceed to go out of his way to work to correct it - either by getting additional voices in-house, or assiduously and consistently cracking down on those who prove themselves incapable of moderating their views when dealing with hard news.; Reply to this comment


by ronmwanga October 26, 2005 2:44 PM EDT: Saw Andy Heyward at the We:Media conference earlier this month. He was fiesty as ever. I kind of saw the writing on the wall when 60 Minutes did 3 sports related stories in as many weeks. And, of course, the Michael Jordan story this week broke all kinds of ratings records. I can\'t blame CBS, which needs to jazz things up on the news front. I only ask that jazzing up the news -- which needs to be done -- doesn\'t alter the successful recipe of 60 Minutes, of which nothing needs to be fixed.; Reply to this comment