Jeff Glor, known for his work on CBS Saturday mornings and as a special correspondent for CBS News, is no longer with the network due to layoffs by Paramount Global.
Puck News first broke the news on Xu (formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday, September 24th. According to the media outlet, Glor, 49, was “among those laid off in Paramount’s latest round of job cuts, which target 2,000 total positions.”
CBS News declined to comment on the report.
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Jeff Glor.
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Glor is reportedly one of hundreds of employees who received word of the layoffs Tuesday after the first round of layoffs in mid-August.
“Like the entire media industry, we are working to accelerate the profitability of streaming while at the same time adapting to the evolving landscape in our traditional businesses,” Paramount CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins wrote in a memo to employees early Tuesday, per The Hollywood Reporter and The Hill.
“To enable Paramount’s continued success, we are taking these actions, and after today, 90 percent of these reductions will be complete.”
Paramount is the parent company of CBS.
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According to THRthe layoffs come as Paramount hopes to save roughly $500 million in pre-merger costs with Skydance by laying off 15 percent of the U.S.-based company’s workforce.
Glor joined CBS News as a correspondent in 2007 and was named anchor CBS Evening News In 2017, before moving to Saturday morning just two years later, in 2019. He co-hosted the program with Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson.
He also worked as a correspondent for 60 minutes Sport and CBS This Morning and previously anchored Early show on a weekday morning in 2011.
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Jeff Glor.
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A source told the New York Post that Glor’s “salary was ‘excessive’ and he has mostly kept to himself, choosing not to play ‘office politics’ or push himself too hard since being moved to weekend duty.”
In addition, sources told the Post that further layoffs could affect CBS News’ Washington. DC bureau after the 2024 presidential election.
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Along with Glora, Ben Tracy, Anna Werner and Roxana Saberi were also among the veteran journalists laid off in the latest round of company-wide layoffs, Los Angeles Times reported.
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