Overview
- CBS News is offering voluntary buyouts to non-union employees at CBS Evening News, with the number of positions not specified.
- Kim Harvey, the program’s executive producer, presented the buyout offers, according to Variety, and the network declined to make executives available for comment.
- Variety reports that Tony Dokoupil and Harvey have urged management not to reduce the Evening News staff.
- The buyout news followed a town hall where Bari Weiss pressed for less commodity news, highlighted new hires from podcasting, and staffers voiced fear about job security and retaliation.
- The step comes after broader cost mandates under parent Paramount Skydance, as early ratings bumps for Dokoupil’s debut have not reversed the show’s year-over-year audience decline.