Jeff Glor, a longtime anchor at CBS News, is exiting the network along with three other veteran correspondents in the most recent round of layoffs at parent company Paramount Global. Glor has been a co-anchor of “CBS Saturday Morning” since 2019. Before joining the program, Glor spent 18 months as anchor of “CBS Evening News.
” He preceded Norah O’Donnell. 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. A CBS News representative declined comment.
The cuts are part of wide-ranging reductions at Paramount Global, which announced in June that it will cut 15% of its U.S. employees, or 2,000 people.
The layoffs made this week mark the second phase of the planned layoffs, which are now 90% complete, according to a memo sent to staffers Tuesday. The layoffs are part of an effort to save $500 million in annual costs ahead of the company’s upcoming merger. Tech scion David Ellison’s Skydance Media, along with RedBird Capital Partners and Ellison’s father, Larry, the co-founder of software giant Oracle Corp.
, are poised to take control of Paramount in the first half of next year, if regulators approve the deal. Before the merger agreement, CBS combined its network news division with its owned television stations under Wend.