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We’ve been hearing rumors about CBS News president Andrew Heyward’s departure for a long time — most recently in Lloyd Grove’s column:

The talk at CBS News is that the curtain is finally falling on embattled exec Andrew Heyward – whose “tenure is the second-longest of any president in the 47-year history of CBS News,” according to his official biography… [snip]
There was a frenzy of speculation about Heyward’s future recently after Moonves was quoted in The New York Times Magazine as saying, “We have to break the mold in news,” “I want to bomb the whole building” and that Heyward might not be able to “lead a revolution.”
A CBS insider told me: “People read that as the nail in the coffin.”
Also a possible factor, I’m told, is the expected fallout from fired producer Mary Mapes’ memoir when it’s published Nov. 8 and serialized in Vanity Fair. I hear that the book will cast Heyward unfavorably in the George Bush-National Guard controversy that forced Dan Rather from the anchor’s chair.

So what’s up guys? Andrew Heyward is not your boss — CBS Digital president Larry Kramer is — so can you get to the bottom of this? A lot of us feel that Heyward escaped accountability for the National Guard controversy. Is Les Moonves finally getting with the program? What’s the story?