10 Plus 1: How Howard Works
(CBS)
What do you do at CBS News?
I am the Washington bureau manager for CBS Radio News and an on-air correspondent. We keep the radio hourly newscasts and updates informed of all the important and a lot of not-so-important news that comes out of Washington.What single issue should be covered more at CBS News?
We have a small staff here and there is a lot happening (as well as a lot of talk in Washington) and it keeps us very busy most of the time. I supervise reporters that work in Congress -- Bob Fuss -- at the White House -- Peter Maer as well as Dan Raviv, Barry Bagnato and John Hartge, who cover many other subjects out of the bureau. We also get contributions from bureau reporters such as Charles Wolfson at the State Department and Stephanie Lambidakis and Beverley Lumpkin at the Justice Department. We get invaluable assistance from CBS News TV correspondents, such as David Martin at the Pentagon, Jim Axelrod and Bill Plante at the White House and Sharyl Attkisson on Capitol Hill.
There is no question that the answer is foreign news. We are forced to cover many foreign stories without having a staff correspondent on the scene. We rely on freelance stringers and help from other news organizations who have reporters in the field, such as The Christian Science Monitor. But there are many other issues that don't get covered in the four minutes of news we provide at the top of every hour, especially when we fill it up with stories that interest people intensely (like a runaway bride or a basketball player rape case) but don't really matter at all to people's lives.
