CBS News Shocker: John Dickerson Leaving Network After 16 Years in Major Shake-Up
What To Know
- John Dickerson announced he will leave CBS News at the end of the year after a 16-year tenure.
- His departure comes less than a year after becoming coanchor of CBS Evening News amid ongoing ratings struggles and a recent leadership change with Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief.
- Dickerson will continue coanchoring until the holidays before officially stepping down.
John Dickerson will officially be parting ways with CBS News at the end of the year. He announced the news on social media on Monday, October 27.
“Local news: At the end of this year, I will leave CBS, sixteen years after I sat in as Face the Nation anchor for the first time,” Dickerson wrote in his morning Instagram post. “I am extremely grateful for all that CBS gave me— the work, the audience’s attention and the honor of being a part of the network’s history— and I am grateful for my dear colleagues who’ve made me a better journalist and a better human. I will miss you.”
The shocking departure news comes less than one year after Dickerson began his latest position on the network as coanchor of CBS Evening News, which has continued to struggle in the ratings. He began hosting the program alongside Maurice DuBois in January.
Future plans for CBS Evening News have not been confirmed, but this is the first major programming shake-up since Bari Weiss took over as editor-in-chief of the network earlier this month. Dickerson will remain with the network until the end of 2025, per a statement from CBS News president Tom Cibrowski.
“After 16 years at CBS News and contributing to every program here, John Dickerson has decided to step away at the end of the year. John epitomizes the very best of journalism,” Cibrowski said in his statement. “He will coanchor the CBS Evening News until the holidays, when he will say farewell. Until then, we’ll have plenty of time to thank him for his work here and honor his contributions to our success.”
Dickerson began his career with CBS News in 2009 as a moderator on Face the Nation. He eventually became the network’s political director and host of CBS Mornings.
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This hurts….bad. It’s a struggle to find news that is NOT partisan. Now the rich fat cats that own news stations are telling reporters what they can and cannot say. Maybe I’ll stop watching ANY news on tv and go to my “reliable” News sources online.
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John you will be missed. After Nora I didn't think those shoes could be filled. But you nailed it as always, especially with your reporters notes. Truth always prevails. Good luck with your ventures, may God bless your journey.
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Truth ? - LOL. Yes he filled Nora's shoes with the anti-conservative spin. Nailed it !
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Gee. I'm guessing you're missing Rush Limbaugh and Joseph McCarthy right about now, huh?
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Of course ! - aren't you ?
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Thank you John, for your integrity. I know this was not an easy decision.
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Integrity ? - He is a slave to the left and extremely biased.
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Yep!
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So you think Brett Baier should replace him?
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Absolutely !
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Always biased ….obvious and annoying
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I know, it was VERY obvious and I think Americans are bored with the bias and fed up with it. All the left can do now is trash the right with the media on board and hope that helps them politicly (it won't, Americans are wise to this cr*p at this point).
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Only in MAGA world is truth "bias".
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People are tired of the Trump bashing. Trump is getting everything done that we voted him in to do and the left hates that. Good riddance Dickerson. Bring in anchors that are moderate, not far left like the rest of the media. Bret Baier would be an excellent choice.
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"Trump is getting everything done" yeah, like wrecking the East Wing of the White House to build a $300 million ballroom that many of us ordinary folks will never see the inside of except possibly as tourists...
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Even many democrats are saying the ballroom was necessary. Not a dime of taxpayer money is being used to pay for it. Get a job and quit complaining...
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Name one.
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One job ? - there are many available. Get one and maybe you can afford to add a ballroom onto the back of the halfway house you live in.
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I mean name one Democrat who wanted to build a ballroom in the WH. And if you don't directly answer this time, I'll know you're full of, well, that thing that AI Trump dropped on those AI No Kings protesters from his plane in that infamous AI video!
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The heads of these companies to name a few...
AmazonAppleBooz Allen Hamilton Inc.Caterpillar Inc.CoinbaseComcast CorporationJ. Pepe and Emilia FanjulHard Rock InternationalGoogle HP Inc.Lockheed MartinMeta PlatformsMicron TechnologyMicrosoftNextEra Energy Inc.Palantir Technologies Inc.RippleReynolds AmericanT-MobileTether AmericaUnion Pacific RailroadAdelson Family FoundationStefan E. BrodieBetty Wold Johnson FoundationCharles and Marissa CascarillaEdward and Shari GlazerHarold Hamm Benjamin Leon Jr.The Lutnick FamilyThe Laura & Isaac Perlmutter FoundationStephen A. SchwarzmannKonstantin SokolovKelly Loeffler and Jeff SprecherPaolo TiramaniCameron WinklevossTyler Winklevoss
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So which of them are Democrats?
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At least one which is all you wanted (think Fetterman, Gates, Cook, Zuck, Bezos, etc.)
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ALL of the democrats in congress knew a large assembly area like the ballroom has been necessary for decades. Having heads of state sitting on lawn chairs in the grass and urinating in port-o-lets is probably not a good look for America. They are just mad that Trump was the one to get it done. If slow joe had done it the dems would have been overjoyed but biden wasn't capable of making intelligent decisions.
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He offered to build it for Obama the destroyer of health care …free
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Why don't you tell me the exact date that actually happened, why don't you?!
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I'm going to bed but thanks for the enlightening conversation Antonio, good night !
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