Overview
- Reports say Gutman will join CBS as a correspondent rather than take the CBS Evening News anchor chair.
- People briefed on the move describe it as Weiss’s first significant on-air hire, with no official network announcements yet.
- CBS has not named successors for Evening News as John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois depart this month.
- Gutman’s ABC contract was expiring and ABC did not counter CBS’s offer, according to people familiar with the discussions.
- The move follows criticism of Gutman’s on-air description of texts tied to the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter, for which he later apologized.