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Opinion | CBS News reportedly hires former Liz Cheney comms exec. The White House is fuming.

Jeremy Adler, who worked with several conservative politicians in the past, will reportedly join CBS News’ communication team.

March 13, 2026

What my golf coach taught me about writing

What a few decades — and many rounds of golf — with Rick Edmonds taught me about writing and teaching the craft

March 13, 2026

Roy Peter Clark

Fake images from the Iran war are spreading online. Here’s how to spot them

Old videos, AI-generated imagery and misleading captions are circulating widely on social media as the conflict unfolds

March 13, 2026

Loreben Tuquero

Journalist-turned-news content creator Chris Vazquez on building a career in the creator economy

The MediaWise ambassador shares lessons on working with newsrooms, growing an audience and launching a creator career

March 12, 2026

Brittani Kollar

Opinion | You won’t believe why the Pentagon barred photographers from its briefings

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides objected to ‘unflattering’ photos of him — in the middle of a war

March 12, 2026

Trump blamed Iran for a school strike. News investigations suggest the U.S. was responsible

Open-source analyses by Bellingcat and major newsrooms challenge the president’s claim as the military investigates what happened

March 12, 2026

Maria Ramirez Uribe

Opinion | Polls show Americans strongly oppose the war in Iran

Early polling suggests the war is unusually unpopular compared with past US military conflicts

March 11, 2026

When Bill Clinton played the sax on Arsenio Hall’s show, politics and pop culture fused

The future president’s 1992 appearance on ‘The Arsenio Hall Show’ showed candidates could reach voters outside traditional journalism

March 11, 2026

Amaris Castillo

Could the Iran war trigger a military draft? Why experts say it’s unlikely

Comments about keeping military ‘options’ open sparked confusion online, but reinstating the draft would require Congress and remains highly unlikely

March 11, 2026

An Indiana public records fight went to court. The journalists (and the public) won.

When public records requests go unanswered, it’s the public that suffers.

March 11, 2026

Opinion | A correspondent known for his Jan. 6 coverage becomes the latest to leave CBS News

Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane becomes the latest CBS News journalist to depart since Bari Weiss took over as editor-in-chief

March 10, 2026

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