{"id":435367,"date":"2026-01-28T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/435367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:28:08","slug":"cbs-news-seeks-buyouts-at-evening-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/435367\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News Seeks Buyouts at ‘Evening News’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCBS News<\/a> has begun to seek an unspecified number of buyouts at \u201cCBS Evening News<\/a>,\u201d according to two people familiar with the situation, part of a bid to cull some jobs that are not tied to the union agreement that governs the majority of the staff.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe buyouts were offered by Kim Harvey, the executive producer of \u201cCBS Evening News,\u201d according to one of these people, and revelation of them surfaces just 24 hours after Bari Weiss<\/a>, editor in chief of CBS News, sought to rally staff to a new vision<\/a> focused on getting CBS News journalism in front of younger, digital audiences. The staff reductions would come just weeks after CBS News launched a new anchor, Tony Dokoupil, on the evening-news program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS News declined to make executives available for comment. <\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to one of the people familiar with the situation, Dokoupil and Harvey have tried to dissuade management from making any cuts in the \u201cEvening News\u201d force. CBS News has already had its staff cut by larger mandates put in force by parent corporation Paramount Skydance, which has looked to cut costs after purchasing the company from its former controlling shareholders, the Redstone family.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the Tuesday meeting, Weiss said CBS News needed to do less so-called \u201ccommodity\u201d news that people could get from other outlets, and seek instead \u201cto do things that are antimemetic, that are not imitative, that are differentiated, that are things you can\u2019t get anywhere else.\u201d She unveiled a spate of new hires of podcasters who focused less on straight journalism and more on niche fields including politics and medical health. \u201cRight now in America, people are skeptical of institutions, but they trust individuals,\u201d Weiss said.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne staffer suggested in a question at the town hall that \u201cEvening News\u201d staffers were already fearful about keeping their jobs. \u201c\u200bWell, at \u2018Evening News,\u2019 people are afraid for their jobs and afraid to even speak for fear of retaliation. There has been a chilling effect within our newsroom,\u201d this person asked, as seen in a transcript of the meeting that was made available for review by CBS News. \u201cIt feels right now like if we offer feedback, alternatives, or constructive criticism, that we are asking for targets on our backs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS has appeared to be encouraged by Dokoupil\u2019s start on \u201cEvening News,\u201d which has started to settle into a routine after drawing attention for awkward segments and some on-screen gaffes. Viewership has risen in his first few weeks on air, but the overall audience for the program continues to erode and is down noticeably from the same period a year earlier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News has begun to seek an unspecified number of buyouts at \u201cCBS Evening News,\u201d according to two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[100518,61590,7930,88,149597,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-435367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bari-weiss","9":"tag-cbs-evening-news","10":"tag-cbs-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-tony-dokoupil","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}