Former CBS News reporter Katherine Herridge – who was controversially fired by the network in February He launched a newsletter on Thursday investigating the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
The award-winning investigative journalist, who began reporting for Elon Musk-owned
newspaper It includes her latest investigations and analysis of current events, as well as updates on her reports and a platform that allows her subscribers to interact directly with the journalist.
“It’s the same quality of work with the same standards that I was doing at CBS News. I’m just telling stories that I wasn’t able to tell before,” Herridge told The Post.
The veteran journalist said the weekly newspaper will be free at first and then eventually there will be a subscription fee, which has not been determined yet.
She said, “This will be the first time in 37 years that I will have this kind of direct conversation with people who have watched me on television over the years.”
His first report For
Herridge searched military records that confirmed the soldier’s heart injury was linked to vaccine-related complications.
Herridge said that after the report was posted on X, the Army paid some of the soldier’s medical bills and swore it would return some of his back pay.
His second check The border crisis and its handling of alleged violations of federal law by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, as well as its subsequent retaliation against whistleblowers who exposed the violations.
The exposure that Herridge’s reporting on X has received has outweighed the already declining “CBS Evening News” ratings.
According to Axe, Herridge’s first report was viewed 3.4 million times, and his border investigation received more than 24 million views.
“The stories had the same impact on X that they would have had on CBS News,” Herridge said. The difference, she said, is that she’s “reaching a much larger, more diverse audience on X.”
“If you have to choose between 4.5 million and 24 million views on the ‘Evening News,’ you’ve got to go with the 24 million engagement because that’s where the growth audience is today.”
The strong viewership numbers may feel like a kind of validation for Herridge, who Hunter Biden faces pushback from his bosses at CBS News over reporting,
Things took a strange turn in February when herridge was let go As part of widespread layoffs initiated by CBS’s parent company Paramount.
His Private files from his office were seized by the networkbeing investigated by House Judiciary Committee,
after pushback from Herries’ associationThe files were returned.
Herridge fans are hoping the journalist will uncover secrets about what happened with the laptop reporting and whether it was blocked by CBS News brass in the fall of 2020.
He declined to comment on that complex topic, but reflected on his second act as a freelance journalist.
“There is an earthquake in the market right now. You can’t argue with data,” he said, referring to falling TV ratings and rising social media viewership. “You have to make these changes.”
