CBS News Has Its First Major Departure Since Change At The Top
CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson announced Monday he is leaving the network at the end of the year.
Dickerson had co-hosted the broadcast with Maurice DuBois since January and was also a chief political analyst and senior national correspondent. He previously appeared on “60 Minutes,” co-anchored “CBS This Morning” and moderated “Face the Nation.”
“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,” Dickerson wrote on Instagram with a photo gallery of moments over the years. “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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