‘A journalistic rape’: Herridge testifies about CBS News document seizure

Veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge testified before Congress Thursday, April 11, and discussed her firing from CBS News. She explained that she was let go on a Zoom call and locked out of her emails and office. Herridge said CBS then seized hundreds of her reporting files including confidential source information. 

“When the network of Walter Cronkite ceases your reporting files, including confidential source information, that is an attack on investigative journalism,” Herridge said in a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Herridge said the files were eventually returned with the help of her union SAG-AFTRA. 

“When my records were seized, I felt it was a journalistic rape,” Herridge said.