{{Short description|American journalist (born 1964)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Catherine Herridge | image = Catherine Herridge in 2025 (cropped).jpg | caption = Herridge in 2025 | birth_name = Catherine Victoria Herridge V | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|05|18}} | birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada | education = {{nowrap|[[Harvard University]] ([[B. A.|BA]])<br />[[Columbia University]] ([[M. A.|MA]])}} | occupation = Journalist, author | years_active = 1986–present | employer = {{plainlist| * [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] (1989–1996) * [[Fox News]] (1996–2019) * [[CBS News]] (2019–2024) }} | notable_works = ''The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits''<br/>''Organ donation advocacy'' | children = 2 | spouse = {{marriage|John Hayes|2004}} | website = {{URL|catherineherridgereports.com/subscribe}} | footnotes = }}
'''Catherine Herridge''' is a Canadian journalist who was a senior investigative correspondent for [[CBS News]] in Washington D.C. from 2019 to 2024. She began at CBS after leaving her role as chief intelligence correspondent for [[Fox News Channel]], which she joined at its inception in 1996.<ref name="auto">{{cite news |last1=Stelter |first1=Brian |title=Fox News departure: Catherine Herridge joins CBS News, saying 'facts matter' |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/31/media/catherine-herridge-fox-news-cbs/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=October 31, 2019}}</ref> Herridge was among twenty CBS News employees who were laid off during budget cuts in February 2024, along with [[Jeff Glor]], [[Jeff Pegues]], Pamela Falk, and Christina Ruffini.
==Early life and education== Herridge was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended [[Jarvis Collegiate Institute]] for high school before moving to the US for college. She earned a [[Bachelor's degree]] from [[Harvard College]] and a [[Master's degree]] in journalism from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/142-alumni-board-2015-16/143 |title=Alumni Board 2015-16 |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624015345/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/142-alumni-board-2015-16/143 |archive-date=June 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/catherine-herridge |title=Catherine Herridge |publisher=Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau |access-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826063427/http://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/catherine-herridge/ |archive-date=August 26, 2014 }}</ref>
==Career== ===In Journalism=== Initially a [[London]]-based correspondent for [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], Herridge joined the [[Fox News Channel]] at its inception in 1996. Herridge also served as a field correspondent for the now-defunct [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] [[newsmagazine]] ''The Pulse''. At Fox, Herridge regularly covered stories centered on [[Hillary Clinton]], including her [[United States Senate election in New York, 2000|campaign for Senate]] in 2000; she also produced notable coverage of the 2004 [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential primary, the [[Beltway sniper attacks|D.C.-area sniper attacks]], and the trial of [[Zacarias Moussaoui]].{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
Herridge was in New York on September 11, 2001, and reported for the network from locations in New York City.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aspensecurityforum.org/moderator/catherine-herridge-2/ |title=Catherine Herridge |publisher=The Aspen Institute |access-date=October 16, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304224720/http://aspensecurityforum.org/moderator/catherine-herridge-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> On October 31, 2019, Fox News announced Herridge would be leaving the network shortly after being awarded the Tex McCrary Award for Journalism from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society for her enterprise reporting at Fox News.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} She then joined [[CBS News]] as a senior investigative correspondent later that year.<ref name="auto"/> Some CBS staffers and Democrats accused Herridge of promoting Republican talking points and conservative conspiracy theories. ''[[Daily Beast]]'' media reporter Maxwell Tani said Herridge at times got [[Scoop (news)|scoops]] with prominent Trump administration officials and asked "softball" questions, adding she was "considered a star in conservative media circles" but was "careful to never cross the line into overt advocacy." However, CNN anchor [[Jake Tapper]] and national security attorney [[Mark Zaid]] defended her work.<ref>{{cite news |title=The New CBS Reporter Driving Democrats—and Some of Her Own Colleagues—Crazy |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-cbs-reporter-catherine-herridge-is-driving-democratsand-some-of-her-own-colleaguescrazy |website=The Daily Beast |date=May 15, 2020 |access-date=October 4, 2023 |last1=Tani |first1=Maxwell }}</ref>
In 2017, citing an anonymous source, Herridge reported on an FBI investigation of [[University of Management and Technology (Virginia)|University of Management and Technology]] and its founder, Yanping Chen. Charges were never filed; Chen subsequently sued several government agencies, alleging that they had leaked information to Herridge in order to damage her reputation. Chen's lawyers issued a subpoena for Herridge to disclose the names of her sources; Herridge refused to do so, and in February 2024 was held in [[contempt of court]] by the federal judge overseeing Chen's lawsuit.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 14, 2023 |first1=Alanna Durkin |last1=Richer |first2=Eric |last2=Tucker |title=A veteran journalist who is refusing to divulge her sources could be held in contempt of court |url=https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-fox-news-china-courts-0915d181b3e55df90f320951abc0c163 |access-date=March 1, 2024 |work=[[AP News]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 29, 2024 |first1=Alanna Durkin |last1=Richer |first2=Eric |last2=Tucker |title=Judge holds veteran journalist Catherine Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to divulge source |url=https://apnews.com/article/catherine-herridge-journalist-contempt-fox-news-cbs-63f6b2cde67fceae192daebe5d11b1a1 |access-date=March 1, 2024 |work=AP News |language=en}}</ref><ref name="RCFPChen"/> According to [[Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press]], courts had ruled Herridge would be unable to appeal the order to testify until she had first been held in contempt for refusing.<ref name="RCFPChen">{{cite web |title=Chen v. FBI |url=https://www.rcfp.org/briefs-comments/chen-v-fbi/ |access-date=March 1, 2024 |publisher=[[Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press]]}}</ref> On September 30, 2025 The [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|DC Circuit Court]] upheld the ruling, holding Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to divulge her source.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-9-30-2025#00000199-9bd6-d3e5-a399-ffffa5280000|title=Reporter disappointed by ruling in contempt case, lawyer says}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/09/24-5050-2137763.pdf|title=Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 1:18-cv-03074)}}</ref>
Herridge was one of twenty CBS News employees [[Layoff|laid off]] on February 13, 2024, among 800 employees terminated by CBS parent [[Paramount Global]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Steinberg |first1=Brian |title=Paramount Layoffs Hit 20 CBS News Staffers |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-layoffs-20-cbs-news-staffers-1235909745/ |work=Variety |date=February 13, 2024}}</ref> She had been probing the [[Hunter Biden]] laptop scandal. On Monday, February 26, 2024, CBS News returned confidential files belonging to Herridge amid mounting pressure from the House Judiciary Committee and [[SAG-AFTRA]], the union which represented her.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2024/02/26/business/cbs-news-returns-confidential-files-of-reporter-covering-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal/|title=CBS News returns confidential files of reporter covering Hunter Biden laptop scandal|first=Alexandra|last=Steigrad|date=February 26, 2024}}</ref>
===Author=== In 2011, Herridge authored ''The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herridge |first1=Catherine |title=The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits |date=June 21, 2011 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0307885258 |edition=1st}}</ref>
==Personal life== On June 6, 2006, she donated a portion of her liver to her infant son, who was diagnosed with [[biliary atresia]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Van Susteren |first=Greta |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198430,00.html |title=Catherine Herridge Fights to Save Her Son's Life – Fox News|website=[[Fox News]] |date=June 6, 2006 |access-date=December 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/catherine-herridge-cbs-biden-staffer|title=Media largely ignored Biden staffer's attack on CBS News' Catherine Herridge|first=Brian|last=Flood|date=May 20, 2020|website=Fox News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts - Patrick Kennedy, Facing Up to a 'Miserable' Reality |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206133149/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060501563.html |archive-date=December 6, 2020 |url-status=live |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060501563.html}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{C-SPAN|1030371}} * [https://twitter.com/C_Herridge "X Account"]
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