This Toronto Star story looks at how two former Canadian broadcast journalists, John Roberts and Thalia Assuras, may end up hosting the CBS Evening News together after Dan Rather hangs it up.
An excerpt:
The slow crawl back to credibility is underway at CBS News, the once-venerable home of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Fred Friendly.
It begins with the post-Dan Rather era, set to begin next month when the 73-year-old anchor retires and the network turns to a trusted and comfortable face, Bob Schieffer, to temporarily slip into the chair Rather has occupied for 24 years.
But the second step in the remake involves a much more radical reshaping of an iconic evening newscast, one that could involve having two Canadians entrusted with turning things around for a network that has fallen on hard times.
One of the Canadians, John Roberts, is the long-time heir apparent to Rather, an ascendancy now thrown into question.
The other is Thalia Assuras, a national correspondent on the network's The Early Show.
Longshot or not, the duo could end up side-by-side as dual, made-in-Canada anchors.
Two sidebars:
Possible New Anchors at CBS (Assuras and Roberts snapshots)