- Catherine Herridge was a long-time investigative reporter for CBS and Fox News
- She is currently embroiled in a legal case that is seeking to reveal the confidential identities of sources she has used in her reporting
- The journalist was also recently fired by CBS News and later was locked out of her office as the company seized hundreds of her documents
Despite being ordered to pay ‘crippling’ fines of $800 per day a former investigative reporter said that she would still not reveal the confidential sources behind her reporting.
Catherine Herridge is an award-winning journalist who served as an investigative reporter for CBS News from 2019 to 2024 and before then at Fox News from 1996 to 2019.
She is known for her reporting on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop and for her February termination from CBS News that resulted in hundreds of her files being seized and her getting locked out of her office.
On Thursday, Herridge testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the personal costs she has shouldered to protect her sources and advocated for the PRESS Act, which aims to protect journalists from revealing their sources.
‘The fact that I have been fighting in the courts for two years and that I am now facing potentially crippling fines of $800 a day to protect my reporting sources underscores the vital importance of the Press Act,’ she said.