Catherine Herridge

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. 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.

Career In Journalism Initially a London-based correspondent for 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 newsmagazine The Pulse. At Fox, Herridge regularly covered stories centered on Hillary Clinton, including her campaign for Senate in 2000; she also produced notable coverage of the 2004 Democratic presidential primary, the D.C.-area sniper attacks, and the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui.

Herridge was in New York on September 11, 2001, and reported for the network from locations in New York City. 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. She then joined CBS News as a senior investigative correspondent later that year.

Herridge was one of twenty CBS News employees laid off on February 13, 2024, among 800 employees terminated by CBS parent Paramount Global. 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.

Contempt of court ruling

Herridge is at the center of a dispute over a journalist's ability to protect secret sources, as follows: Citing anonymous sources, Herridge in 2017 reported on an FBI investigation of University of Management and Technology and its founder, Yanping Chen. The investigation had ended a year earlier, charges were never filed. The DC Circuit Court upheld the civil contempt citation in 2025 and in 2026 the Supreme Court declined to intervene.

Author In 2011, Herridge authored The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits.

Personal life On June 6, 2006, she donated a portion of her liver to her infant son, who was diagnosed with biliary atresia.