O’Donnell, 52, joins Gayle King and Nate Burleson on the morning program. She previously co-hosted CBS Mornings with King and Charlie Rose from 2012 to 2019, but left to anchor CBS Evening News. Her tenure there ended in January 2025.
After her departure from evening news, O’Donnell remained at CBS News as a senior correspondent and 60 Minutes contributor. She also made a guest appearance on CBS Mornings earlier this year to promote her book, We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America. Viewership among the 25-54 demographic — which is most coveted by advertisers in news programming — is down 20 percent compared to last year to around 278,000 viewers.
But that is far from the only issue plaguing CBS at the moment. The network has experienced a period of turmoil following the installation of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News last year, after Paramount merged with Skydance. Since taking over CBS News, the company has seen the departure of several producers and reporters, some of whom have accused Weiss of undermining the network’s journalistic integrity.
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