CBS Evening News' John Dickerson Is Leaving Network After 16 Years Following Controversial Paramount Merger Liza EsquibiasOctober 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM 0 Michele Crowe/CBS via Getty John Dickerson in 2021 John Dickerson is leaving CBS News after 16 years at the network, he announced on Oct. 27 He currently coanchors CBS Evening News with Maurice Dubois following the reboot of the weeknight broadcast in early 2025 Dickerson's exit comes after the controversial merger between Paramount and Skydance John Dickerson has announced that he is leaving CBS News.
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Liza EsquibiasOctober 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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John Dickerson is leaving CBS News after 16 years at the network, he announced on Oct. 27
He currently co-anchors CBS Evening News with Maurice Dubois following the reboot of the weeknight broadcast in early 2025
Dickerson's exit comes after the controversial merger between Paramount and Skydance
John Dickerson has announced that he is leaving CBS News.
In a post on his official Instagram page on Monday, Oct. 27, the CBS Evening News co-anchor, 57, revealed that he will be stepping away from his position in the new year. Alongside a series of photos from his longtime career with the network, Dickerson shared a heartfelt message.
"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," he wrote. "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."
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In a statement to PEOPLE, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski addressed Dickerson's departure.
"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," it reads. "John epitomizes the very best of journalism. He will co-anchor 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."
In July, CBS News settled a lawsuit with President Donald Trump, who accused the program of deceptively editing former Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign trail appearance on 60 Minutes, per a report by Reuters. Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to the president's future presidential library.
The settlement came as the CBS' parent company was seeking approval from the Trump-controlled FCC for approval of Skydance's $8 billion acquisition of Paramount. The lawsuit originally sought $10 billion in damages, and triggered concerns over the precedent Paramount would set for media companies by giving into Trump's demands.
Dickerson spoke out against the settlement on CBS Evening News Plus in July. "We pride ourselves on our BS detector, so it ought to work on ourselves, too," he said at the time.
"When it doesn't, the stakes are real, a loss of public trust, the spread of misinformation," he added. "The Paramount settlement poses a new obstacle. Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you've traded away that trust?"
Earlier in October, Bari Weiss, best known for running the opinion website The Free Press, was named editor in chief of CBS News, despite having no experience running a news organization of CBS' size.
Dickerson first joined CBS in 2009 on Face the Nation before becoming CBS News' political director, a 60 Minutes contributor (his story on the program about the death of Elijah McClain was nominated for an Emmy) and later a CBS Mornings co-anchor.
In January 2025, he and Dubois, 60, were tapped to succeed Norah O'Donnell on CBS Evening News after her five-year stint at the desk.
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John Dickerson (left); Maurice DuBois
As part of the weeknight broadcast's reboot at the time, it also moved from Washington D.C. back to the CBS Broadcast Center's historic Studio 47 in Manhattan, where Dan Rather led the show for 24 years.
In addition to Dickerson and Dubois, Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan regularly leads coverage from Washington during major political moments, and WCBS-TV's Lonnie Quinn acts as the chief weather anchor.
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Over the course of his career at CBS, Dickerson has moderated CBS News' two presidential debates during the 2016 presidential campaign, and he has interviewed five U.S. presidents: Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter.
Dickerson recently anchored CBS Evening News from Vatican City after the death of Pope Francis in April, and, in August, from Alaska for the Trump-Putin summit.
Outside of CBS News, Dickerson — whose mother, Nancy Dickerson, made broadcasting history in 1960 as CBS' first female correspondent — has hosted podcasts including Slate's Political Gabfest, and previously worked as a reporter at Time magazine and Slate.
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