Catherine Herridge

Catherine V . Herridge is an Emmy Award‐winning veteran investigative correspondent who specializes in national security and intelligence.  

As a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News from 2019-2024, Herridge’s reporting was a catalyst for legislative change affecting more than a million American veterans and civilians.  

In 2021, Herridge and the CBS News Investigative Unit won the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting for a year-long probe that exposed serious health hazards at the K-2 military base in Uzbekistan that supported Special Operations missions into Afghanistan after 9/11.  

Prior to joining CBS News, Herridge was the chief intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC), and a TV and radio correspondent for ABC News in London.  

In 2019, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society awarded Herridge with its annual Tex McCrary Award for excellence in journalism.  

She is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia School of Journalism where she founded a national security reporting scholarship.  

Catherine now reports as an independent journalist with over 1 million followers on X. She is the host of Straight to the Point with Catherine Herridge.