{"id":7866,"date":"2025-06-23T04:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/archives\/7866"},"modified":"2025-06-23T04:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:56:42","slug":"very-sad-cbs-this-morning-fans-couldnt-hide-their-emotions-after-norah-odonnells-teary-eyed-farewell-full-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/?p=7866","title":{"rendered":"[VERY SAD] ‘CBS This Morning’ fans couldn’t hide their emotions after Norah O’Donnell’s teary-eyed farewell. Full story here \ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Norah O\u2019Donnell said farewell to \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Donnell, 45, has been a co-anchor of the broadcast since 2012. She will join \u201cCBS Evening News,\u201d as the anchor and managing editor, replacing Jeff Glor. In addition, she will serve as lead anchor for political events and contribute to \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Norah<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During her on-air departure, the morning show aired a video that included a montage of O\u2019Donnell\u2019s interviews \u2013 including snippets of chats with the Dalai Lama, Prince Harry and James Taylor \u2013 and warm wishes from her parents and kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCan\u2019t wait to have a before-school-breakfast,\u201d her son Henry told her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellow journalists like Anderson Cooper and Robin Roberts also shared kind words, as did the hosts of evening news programs for NBC and ABC, Lester Holt and David Muir, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The compilation moved O\u2019Donnell to tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe best is yet to come. I think that\u2019s for all of us at CBS News,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledging her co-hosts, she added: \u201cWe\u2019ve made news, we\u2019ve been in the news, but we\u2019ve also made friendships. This is the greatest team on television.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning to the crew, she extended her appreciation. \u201cYou know how much I love all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat you should know is we are cheering you on,\u201d said Gayle King, who will remain on \u201cThis Morning\u201d with new hosts Anthony Mason, a senior national correspondent and CBS veteran, and Tony Dokoupil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Norah<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, news broke that she and John Dickerson would be leaving the program as part of a series of sweeping changes at the network. Dickerson has been tapped for \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and will also have a role in election specials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the news was revealed on \u201cThis Morning,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said she would put all she had into her new position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was looking through some things that Walter Cronkite said, and he said, \u2018I can\u2019t imagine a person becoming a success in life without giving everything they\u2019ve got.\u2019 And so I\u2019m gonna give this everything I\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Donnell will be only the third female solo anchor of a network evening newscast, following ABC\u2019s Diane Sawyer and former CBS anchor Katie Couric,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The changes mark the first big moves by Susan Zirinsky, who became CBS News\u2019 first female president in March. (A fourth \u201cMorning\u201d co-anchor, Bianna Golodryga, was relieved of her duties in April after a six-month stint and exercised an option to exit the network).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Norah<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She is aiming to reverse the fortunes of CBS\u2019 cellar-dwelling \u201cEvening News\u201d and \u201cThis Morning\u201d telecasts, which for years have lagged behind NBC and ABC in a distant third place, even as CBS leads them in overall primetime audience. Ratings for both broadcasts have suffered in the wake of recent changes: Charlie Rose\u2019s 2017 exit from \u201cThis Morning\u201d in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, and the naming of Glor, also in 2017, to succeed Scott Pelley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributing: Gary Levin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norah O\u2019Donnell said farewell to \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d Thursday. O\u2019Donnell, 45, has been a co-anchor of the broadcast since 2012. She will join \u201cCBS Evening News,\u201d as the anchor and managing editor, replacing … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions\/7869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}