{"id":33783,"date":"2025-11-01T19:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/33783\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:58:25","slug":"cbs-saturday-morning-co-hosts-michelle-miller-and-dana-jacobson-out-in-paramount-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/33783\/","title":{"rendered":"‘CBS Saturday Morning’ co-hosts Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson out in Paramount layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cCBS Saturday Morning\u201d co-hosts Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson are among the nearly 100 news division employees cut as part of a massive round of layoffs<\/a> at parent company Paramount.<\/p>\n

The program is getting a new format that will align it closer to the weekday show \u201cCBS Mornings,\u201d according to people familiar with the plans who were not authorized to comment publicly. Brian Applegate, the executive producer of the Saturday program, is out as well.<\/p>\n

CBS has also canceled \u201cCBS Mornings Plus,\u201d an extension of its morning program that ran in several markets, including Los Angeles. \u201cCBS Evening News Plus,\u201d a streaming program anchored by John Dickerson is also being shuttered. Dickerson announced Monday he is leaving the network.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Several correspondents have already been laid off, including Debora Patta, who covered the Gaza war for the network, as well as Janet Shamlian, Nancy Chen and Nikki Battiste.<\/p>\n

Lisa Ling, who joined CBS News as a contributor in 2023, is also departing.<\/p>\n

The news division also shuttered its race and culture unit, which was formed in the aftermath of the 2020 police killing of George Floyd. Some of the employees in the unit will move to other parts of the company. <\/p>\n

A CBS News representative declined to comment.<\/p>\n

The cuts are part of parent company Paramount\u2019s reduction<\/a> of 1,000 employees across all of its divisions. New owner Skydance Media is looking to reduce costs by $2 billion across the company, with a second round of cuts expected later this year.<\/p>\n

Miller was a prolific correspondent for CBS News in addition to her Saturday co-host duties, contributing pieces to \u201cCBS Sunday Morning\u201d and \u201c48 Hours.\u201d She also was a frequent fill-in for Gayle King on the weekday morning program.<\/p>\n

Miller, 52, is a Los Angeles native and the daughter of Dr. Ross Miller, a trauma surgeon who served on the Compton City Council. She worked at the Los Angeles Times in the early 1990s. <\/p>\n

Miller covered a wide range of stories at CBS News, and paid special attention<\/a> to issues of racism and social injustice. She is married to Marc Morial, the former mayor of New Orleans who is currently head of the National Urban League.<\/p>\n

Jacobson, 52, has been with CBS News since 2015. She previously spent a decade at ESPN, where she appeared on \u201cFirst Take\u201d and \u201cSportsCenter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller and Jacobson have served as co-hosts of \u201cCBS Saturday Morning\u201d since 2018, when it was called \u201cCBS This Morning Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCBS Saturday Morning\u201d co-hosts Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson are among the nearly 100 news division employees cut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24324,24315,24318,24320,13396,24316,24323,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,24317,24322,5848,24319,24321,1459,24325],"class_list":["post-33783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-cbs-mornings","tag-cbs-news-representative","tag-cbs-saturday-morning","tag-co-host-michelle-miller","tag-cut","tag-dana-jacobson","tag-john-dickerson","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-miller","tag-morning-program","tag-network","tag-paramount-layoff","tag-parent-company-paramount","tag-part","tag-wide-range"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}