CBS News’ flagship night broadcast, CBS Evening News, will look remarkably totally different in 2026 after the remaining co-host, Maurice DuBois, introduced he will probably be departing this system on December 18.
DuBois, who was paired with John Dickerson on CBS Evening News, had been in his present function for lower than one 12 months. He broke the news of his departure to staffers on Thursday morning, saying, “December 18th is the day of my last broadcast at CBS News.”
Noting that it was an honor of a lifetime to be delivering the news at CBS News for 21 years, together with at WCBS-TV, the New York City affiliate, DuBois added, “What a privilege! To be welcomed into your homes night after night, delivering the news / meeting extraordinary people, and telling their stories.”
“Maurice has long represented what we do best at CBS News and Stations,” Tom Cibrowski, president and government editor, CBS News, stated in a press release. “We are grateful for his significant contributions at both CBS News New York and the CBS Evening News. Maurice is deeply valued and respected as a journalist by all of us, and we wish him much success.”
DuBois is the newest main expertise to go away CBS News. This indicators a serious revamp on the horizon for CBS Evening News, which now falls below the purview of Bari Weiss, the news community’s new editor-in-chief.
Dickerson, who introduced his departure in October, is remaining with CBS News “until the holidays, when he says farewell,” in line with Cibrowski.
This would be the second main revamp of the news program in lower than a 12 months, however this model of CBS Evening News has not moved the needle, remaining in third place within the rankings. It additionally didn’t discover a correct footing after the sudden exit of Bill Owens, who oversaw this system, in April