Veteran Reporter Catherine Herridge Held in Contempt for Refusing to Disclose News Source

The former Fox News and CBS News reporter was ordered to pay a fine of $800 per day until she divulges her sources.

Catherine Herridge attends the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after-party at the Residence of the French Ambassador in Washington, on April 30, 2022. Shedrick Pelt/Getty Images

A federal judge found veteran reporter Catherine Herridge in contempt of court on Thursday for refusing to identify the sources she used for a 2017 investigative series relating to an FBI probe into a Chinese scientist.

Ms. Herridge wrote the investigative series on Chinese scientist Yanping Chen during her tenure at Fox News. She transitioned from Fox News to CBS News in 2019 but was recently laid off from CBS News.