JUST IN: Catherine Herridge’s Potential Next Move Is Revealed

Catherine Herridge’s next potential career move has been revealed. The former CBS News senior correspondent is currently in discussions about joining X, according to sources. While the talks are still preliminary, there’s potential for Herridge to lead a new investigative unit, which she would play a key role in developing.

Herridge has been recognized for her detailed reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. She is also an award-winning journalist who departed CBS News in February amid layoffs by its corporate parent Paramount. Herridge is said to have met with X CEO Linda Yaccarino at The Jefferson Hotel in Washington, DC, earlier this month.

“We are in discussions with many content creators who are interested in joining X in various ways. Catherine Herridge is a great journalist who strongly supports free speech,” X said in a statement to The New York Post.

“Herridge is weighing a number of opportunities,” another source told the outlet.

X, formerly known as Twitter, has made headlines for various operational changes and strategic shifts under the ownership of Elon Musk. In recent moves, the platform has recruited Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon. However, Lemon’s deal with the platform was terminated by Musk shortly after their contentious interview earlier this month.

The veteran investigative journalist was also found in civil contempt earlier this month after a judge ordered Herridge to produce the names of sources who leaked information about the FBI’s interrogations of scientist Yanping Chen, who is suing the government.

Under an Obama-appointed judge’s order, Herridge faced a fine of $800 per day every 24 hours that she refused to out her sources.

The reports, published during Herridge’s tenure at Fox News, led Chen to initiate a lawsuit against the FBI in 2018. Herridge has claimed the agency violated her privacy by leaking information without authorization. In 2022, Chen sought to compel Herridge and Fox News to reveal the source of the leaks through a legal subpoena, a move both resisted by citing First Amendment rights.

CBS’s decision to terminate the acclaimed investigative reporter back in February was controversial as well. The network took drastic measures by confiscating Herridge’s files, computers, and records, which included sensitive information on privileged sources according to reports.

The aggressive action not only alarmed Herridge’s colleagues but also attracted the attention of the SAG-AFTRA union. The situation took on an even more ominous tone given that Herridge was engaged in pursuing stories that were not favorably viewed by the Biden White House and several Democratic power brokers.

A former journalist from CBS told The Hill at the time that numerous employees were “confused why [Herridge] was laid off, as one of the correspondents who broke news regularly and did a lot of original reporting.” One individual mentioned, “I had never seen a seizure of records from a departing journalist, and that the move had sent a ‘chilling signal’ in the ranks of CBS.”

A former CBS manager, speaking anonymously said after Herridge’s firing, “I had ‘never heard of anything like this.'” They noted that traditionally, journalists exiting the company were allowed to take all their files and personal office items, with the company even assisting in packing personal belongings, ranging from cups to post-its.