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| Jeff Glor |
Jeff Glor, who anchored the CBS Evening News for two years before co-hosting CBS Saturday Morning, is leaving CBS News amid a wave of layoffs, according to a report TVLine.
Glor was currently a co-host of CBS Saturday Morning, along with Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller, a position he’s held since June 2019. Glor also serves as a CBS News special correspondent, traveling the world to report on breaking news stories on location. He has interviewed dozens of authors as well as part of the show’s extensive book coverage.
The network news division is also parting ways with three veteran correspondents, including Ben Tracy, who covered environmental issues out of Los Angeles; Anna Werner, the senior consumer investigative correspondent; and Chicago-based reporter Roxana Saberi, according to people briefed on the cuts.
The staff reductions hit CBS stations as well. Morning news anchor Marci Gonzales of Los Angeles outlet KCAL is among those who will depart.
CBS News top brass announced this summer that O’Donnell would vacate the anchor chair after the presidential election in November. The network will also bring the show back to New York in a cost-savings measure and revamp it under CBS News journalist John Dickerson and WCBS anchorman Maurice DuBois.
The changes come as CBS-parent Paramount is in the throes of laying off 2,000 staffers in order to cut $500 million from the budget ahead of its planned merger with Skydance Media, which is expected to be finalized next year.
Glor has been with CBS News since 2007, first serving as a reporter and anchor and filing reports for CBS Sunday Morning and The Early Show, which was later rebooted as CBS This Morning. In December 2017, Glor became the anchor of the CBS Evening News, taking over for Scott Pelley. Glor was then replaced in June 2019, with 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O’Donnell taking his place in the anchor’s chair. That same month, he joined CBS Saturday Morning as a co-host.
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