Catherine Herridge
Cory amplifies 212×Straight-news investigator and press-freedom litigant.
Veteran investigative journalist who covered national security and intelligence at Fox News and then CBS News (laid off in Feb 2024). She is known for source-driven reporting on the FBI, intelligence community, and government documents, and as of 2026 works independently and advocates for press freedom, including testimony to Congress on a federal reporter's-shield law.
In their words
“.@JudiciaryGOP @GOPoversight @WaysandMeansGOP “The Committees require this (Biden/Hur interview) transcript..there is con…”
The strongest case
Confidential sources are indispensable to investigative journalism and government accountability; a strong reporter's privilege to protect those sources must be shielded, or whistleblowers stop coming forward.
And against
In the reporting at the center of her contempt case, the subject (scientist Yanping Chen) was never charged and sued over the leaks — raising the fair question of whether stories built on leaked investigative files caused reputational harm without proven wrongdoing.
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On the record
On Feb 29, 2024, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper held Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to identify a confidential source in a Privacy Act lawsuit (Chen v. FBI), imposing an $800/day fine that was stayed pending appeal; an appeals panel later upheld the order and she continued to refuse to name the source. [source]