Posted on 10/29/2025 11:05:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Brutal layoffs are hitting CBS News after its parent company announced a plan to axe more than 2,000 staff across the organization.
New editor-in-chief Bari Weiss acknowledged the cuts on the network's morning editorial call Wednesday, Semafor's Max Tani reported.
Weiss called it a 'enormously difficult day' for the network, according to Tani.
David Ellison, the chairman of CBS News parent Paramount, broke the news about the companywide layoffs in a note to staff Wednesday morning.
'In some areas, we are addressing redundancies that have emerged across the organization,' he wrote.
'In others, we are phasing out roles that are no longer aligned with our evolving priorities and the new structure designed to strengthen our focus on growth.'
The layoffs will include an initial round of cuts on Wednesday that will impact 1,000 staffers across various departments. Another 1,000 are soon to follow, the New York Times reported.
At CBS News, nearly 100 positions will be eliminated, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cuts were planned before Weiss arrived at the network.
In addition, layoffs will also hit Paramount's film studio and cable networks, including MTV, Nickelodeon and BET.
The news comes days after CBS Evening News co-host John Dickerson announced his resignation, ending a stint plagued by poor ratings.
The 16-year CBS veteran had been quietly negotiating his exit for weeks, Status reported. Paramount's merger with Ellison's Skydance in July led to the decision.
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Massive layoffs are normal when two large corporations merge. There are redundancies everywhere that must be eliminated................
(Gayle King’s days are numbered)
I remember when they installed her. WHAT a joke.
Who will interview fake-crying Juicy now?
HA HA !
😃😄🤣🤣🤣
She can be a maid for orca wimpfree.
Gayle King is terrible as is Nate - both can be scrubbed from CBS Morning show. I’d get rid of Margaret Brennan as well, just awful.
I can’t wait to see her PODCAST. (s)
She might get a couple thousand viewers.
She can interview Megyn and Harry along with Oprah now.
LOL 🤣
Juicy in drag probably
Humm, probably an attempt to rehabilitate an Unworthy Purveyor of Propaganda and Disinformation.
The new owners just want to make some money on their new investment. IIRC, the CBS News Division was a money loser from the 70’s forward and was subsidized by the Entertainment Division...........
Gayle King’s pic with Jesse makes more sense now. She’s trying to get hired at Fox!
“We can replace all of you with an AI. They make them dumb enough now.”
No King’s
If Bari Weiss is to restore the credibility of CBS, all those currently employed there who sullied the credibility of CBS must go. Not difficult to understand.
😁...............................
I recently watched a thirty minute documentary on the literal plague of Wild Boars and their threat to America in multiple ways but one being they are known to carry as many as 30 different and serious diseases.
CBS culling it’s marxists, atheistic, uber liberal STAFF,
ALL DEMOCRATS, reminds me of culling the Wild Boars!
When will CBS is celebrate “No King Day”.
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