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Norah O'Donnell's CBS Career Continues To Get More And More Complicated

Writer Liam Parker

Norah O'Donnell has done great work — work her colleagues feel she takes all of the credit for. After winning an Emmy award for a report on sexual assault in the Air Force Academy, she again took to Facebook. "This was the toughest story I covered in the last year," O'Donnell wrote.

This upset many, including a source who told the Daily Mail that O'Donnell's team "spent months" working on the report for and with her. "With Norah," they said, "it's always about me."

This feeling reportedly is shared by those who work with her. Other sources told the Daily Mail that "Norah adds anxiety in the newsroom. She doesn't treat people well," and that, "Norah is demanding but can be so harsh in her treatment of people — particularly women — I've seen a lot of tears. People live in fear around Norah."

The dress rehearsals O'Donnell has before each "CBS Evening News" is the epicenter for many people's anxieties. Sources told the New York Post the half-hour ordeal — which is "very unusual" for news broadcasts, especially one that has been on the air for three years — is "an often tense ritual that has seen O'Donnell chewing out dressing room stylists over her hair and makeup." Another explains how the rehearsals are also used to help "coach" how O'Donnell reads the teleprompter to "make her look more human."