Overview
- Paramount eliminated about 1,000 roles in its first wave of layoffs, with roughly 100 positions cut at CBS News, according to multiple reports and a company memo.
- CBS canceled its streaming offshoots CBS Mornings Plus and CBS Evening News Plus, which featured Tony Dokoupil, Adriana Diaz and John Dickerson.
- CBS Saturday Morning will be reworked under the weekday team, with co-hosts Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson and executive producer Brian Applegate exiting, according to multiple outlets.
- CBS News is closing its Johannesburg bureau, shifting oversight of the region to London as part of a consolidation of its international footprint.
- The division shuttered its Race and Culture Unit and laid off several correspondents and contributors, including Debora Patta, Janet Shamlian, Nancy Chen, Nikki Battiste and Lisa Ling, the Los Angeles Times reported.