According to The Daily Beast, starting in the late 2000s, former CBS newscaster and “60 Minutes” correspondent Dan Rather began to embark on ventures he always wanted to start. One of these backburner projects was the writing of his autobiography, which he titled “Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News.” Rather published his autobiography in 2013 (via Grand Central Publishing). Additionally, he hosted “Dan Rather Reports” for AXS TV for seven years, which was a mixture of newscasting plus investigative reporting in a similar fashion to his work on “60 Minutes.” At one point, Logan Lerman was in talks to play Rather in “Newsflash,” which would have covered the journalist’s reporting of the JFK assassination, but the film stalled in negotiations.
As for his decades spent at CBS, where he became a nightly fixture in the homes of millions of Americans, Dan Rather’s eventual fall from the network was portrayed in the 2015 movie “Truth.” In the film, Rather was portrayed by Robert Redford. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that same year, the author spoke about his time at CBS and his respect for the network. “I loved CBS and still do. It’s a great national institution. Would I have had it end differently for me? Of course. But until the movie started being made, it was well behind me.” He then described his post-network reporting as “among the most satisfying years I’ve had.”
