CBS Reports

CBS Reports premiered on October 27, 1959. It was intended to be a successor to Edward R. Murrow's influential See It Now, which had ended 15 months prior, and employed several members of the See It Now production staff. Consequently, CBS Reports was pre-empted by a high number of CBS affiliates that aired local programming in its timeslot. ==Notable episodes==

CBS Reports received a Peabody Award in 1960 for the episode "Harvest of Shame", which examined the lives of migrant workers in the United States. CBS Reports also received Peabody Awards for Storm Over the Supreme Court, KKK - The Invisible Empire, The Poisoned Air, Hunger in America, The Battle for South Africa, The Boston Goes to China, The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America, D-Day, and, in 1979, Roger Mudd's interview with Ted Kennedy. 1961's Biography of a Bookie Joint, which documented an illegal bookmaking establishment in Boston, was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Program of the Year. Boston Police Commissioner Leo J. Sullivan was forced to resign after the episode, which showed members of his department visiting the gambling establishment. CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, which aired in 1967, was the first time homosexuality was presented on a national network broadcast. "The Homosexuals" was praised for debunking negative stereotypes, but also condemned for generalizations and promoting other stereotypes. LGBT activist Wayne Besen called "The Homosexuals" "the single most destructive hour of antigay propaganda in our nation's history." Gay Power, Gay Politics, which aired in 1980, was also criticized for unfairly misrepresenting a number of sexual issues, reinforcing stereotypes, and making homosexuals appear as threats to public decency. CBS later apologized for manipulating the soundtrack of a speech made by San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein the first time that the LGBT community had received an apology from a major news organization. Westmoreland dropped his lawsuit, Westmoreland v. CBS; however, CBS lost its libel insurance over the case. ==Revivals==

The CBS Reports banner was brought back into use in 2009, with the series CBS Reports: Children of the Recession. Instead of being a stand-alone documentary, the new incarnation consisted of reports across all CBS News platforms. Katie Couric led coverage. The series of reports won the a Columbia School of Journalism Alfred DuPont Award. In January 2010, a second Couric-led series aired, CBS Reports: Where America Stands. In 2016, CBSN streaming service launched CBSN Originals, a documentary series sponsored by pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Adam Yamaguchi, who before joining CBSN served as an executive producer and a correspondent for award-winning Vanguard series on Current TV, became executive producer and a correspondent for the project. Yamaguchi noted in an interview that unlike linear TV, streaming television allows the stories to be as short, or as long, as they need to be and provides incredible creative freedom. The same journalistic rigor is applied to the reporting irrespective of the format and platform. In 2022, the CBSN Originals project was rebranded as CBS Reports. Each CBS Reports documentary "takes a deep dive into key issues driving national and global conversations. The stories cover a wide range of topics such as the ripple effects of America’s culture wars, climate change, the rise in extremism, the economic shifts impacting communities to countries and the ways technologies are both saving and threatening humanity". ==CBSN Originals/CBS Reports episodes==

Source: Season 1 For the first season Paramount+ website shows four episodes, while CBSN YouTube playlist shows six episodes. The latter has been used for the list below. Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 == See also ==