page_title: Gayle King
section_title: Network news
hierarchical_section_title: Gayle King / Career / Network news
caption_attribution_description: U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a television interview with Gayle King from CBS news in New York, New York on August 20, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/Public Domain]
context_page_description: Gayle King is an American television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS This Morning, a position she has held since its debut in 2012. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.
context_section_description: Before joining CBS News, King worked as a special correspondent for Good Morning America. On November 10, 2011, King secured a deal with CBS to co-anchor CBS This Morning, beginning on January 9, 2012. She publicly called for CBS to have full transparency when it was learned CBS planned on keeping the findings of sexual abuse and harassment at the network private.  She received recognition for remaining stoic during an interview with R. Kelly, who rose from his chair and began to scream and beat his chest in an interview discussing the sexual abuse allegations made against the singer.
  In 2018, King was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. She was also chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019.
  In 2020, shortly after the death of Kobe Bryant, King received social media criticism, most notably from rapper Snoop Dogg who later apologized, for a CBS This Morning interview with former WNBA player Lisa Leslie, in which King brought up Bryant's sexual assault allegations from 2003. She also received support, most  notably from long-time friend Oprah Winfrey. King said CBS had used an out-of-context excerpt from the interview. The network said in a statement that the excerpt was not reflective of the "thoughtful, wide-ranging interview" King had conducted with Leslie.
caption: King interviews Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on CBS This Morning in 2019.
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