Here we are, just a few weeks after the surprise resignation of Fox’s Shepard “Shep” Smith, and another big name is departing from the network.
It has been announced that 23-year veteran Catherine Herridge will be leaving the Fox News Channel and going to CBS News.
“CBS News has always placed a premium on enterprise journalism and powerful investigations,” Herridge said in a statement. “I feel privileged to join a team where facts and storytelling will always matter.”
Is that to say that “facts” and “storytelling” do not matter at Fox?
Behind-the-scenes
In recent times, gossip has emerged that the news-side, as opposed to the opinion-side, employees at Fox are unhappy because the opinion employees occasionally criticize the reporting of the news employees. But, whether this is true or has anything to do with the departure of Herridge, a news employee, is unclear.
Unlike Smith, Herridge’s decision to leave Fox does not appear to have been spur-of-the-moment. Her contract lapsed over the summer, and she had been negotiating a new deal when she received an offer from CBS.
Neither Herridge nor Fox appear to have any hard feelings about the matter.
“I have received great personal satisfaction from mentoring the next generation of reporters and producers and sharing my journalistic values — that facts matter and enterprise reporting will always win the day,” Herridge said in her statement, where she also offered thanks to executive chairman Rupert Murdoch.
Fox executive Jay Wallace responded in kind:
As a founding employee, over the last 23 years, Catherine Herridge has been an asset to Fox News. From her breaking news headlines at the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to her reporting after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the investigation into Princess Diana’s death, she has always been at the forefront of every beat she has covered. We are grateful for Catherine’s many contributions to the network, wish her continued success and were proud to honor her as she received the Tex McCrary Award for Journalism last week from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society for her enterprise reporting at Fox News.
New start
Herridge got her career underway as a London-based correspondent for ABC News. She then joined Fox at its inception in the 1990s.
Since then, as Wallace pointed out, Herridge has made a name for herself reporting on the biggest stories over the past two decades. Included among the accomplishments is an interview that she had with President Donald Trump just at the end of the Russia investigation.
Now Herridge will work out of Washington as a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News. She is expected to begin at some point in November.
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