Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Lisa Ling has, over the course of her career, traveled to far-off places including Costa Rica and North Korean.
Her next stop: CBS News. Ling, who recently cut ties with CNN after the Warner Bros. Discovery-based cable-news outlet canceled her documentary program, “This Is Life,” will join CBS News as a contributor, says co-president Neeraj Khemlani.
She is expected to debut on CBS News later this summer, and will be based in Los Angeles. “If you look at her work over the years, she is really excellent at embedding with communities,” says the executive, in an interview. “You can only do that if you are afforded time and resources that fits with the kind of storytelling that we do.” Ling is expected to contribute reports to “CBS Mornings,” the flagship A.M.
program of the CBS broadcast network. During Khemlani’s tenure, the program has focused more intently on longer-form features and stories, many of which are seen in the second hour on weekdays and throughout the show’s Sunday edition.
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