For more than half a century, CBS Evening News has been synonymous with the network’s reputation for journalistic excellence, with anchors such as Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather holding court on a nightly basis. Now, it will be up to Bari Weiss, CBS News’s editor in chief, who has no previous background in television, to help decide what comes next for the show, which has struggled to attract viewers.
On Monday, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson – one of the network’s best-known personalities – announced he would leave the network at the end of the year, leaving behind his fellow anchor, Maurice DuBois.
