Anchor Maurice DuBois Is Leaving ‘CBS Evening News'

The nightly news seat once held by esteemed journalists like Walter Cronkite and Katie Couric will now look for its next rising star.

Anchor Maurice DuBois has announced that he will be leaving the "CBS Evening News," and that his final show is set for December 18th.

"It has been the Honor of a Lifetime. 21 years altogether, including my time at WCBS-TV in New York City," DuBois said in a post on social media, chronicling his decades of work with CBS.

"What a privilege! To be welcomed into your homes night after night, delivering the news / meeting extraordinary people and telling their stories. I’ll leave filled with gratitude, cherished relationships and amazing memories."

Second 'Evening News' Anchor to Leave This Year

DuBois has co-anchored the "CBS Evening News" with John Dickerson since January, as the duo replaced Norah O'Donnell. O'Donnell held the seat from 2019 through the early portion of 2025, reporting on major events like the COVID pandemic and two separate presidential election cycles.

Like DuBois, Dickerson announced his own departure from CBS News back in October. The anchors' decision to depart now leaves the show without an anchor heading into 2026, a problem the network will need to solve over the final few weeks of the year.

“Maurice has long represented what we do best at CBS News and Stations,” said Tom Cibrowski, president and executive editor of CBS News in a statement.

“For more than two decades, he has delivered the day’s biggest stories from our studios in New York and in the field. Maurice is deeply valued and respected as a journalist by all of us and we wish him much success. We will have more details on the next chapter of CBS Evening News in the near future.”

CBS News' Internal Shakeup To End 2025

DuBois and Dickerson's departure comes after the appointment of CBS News' editor-in-chief Bari Weiss by new Paramount CEO Larry Ellison.

According to The Independent, Weiss previously addressed cuts within the newsroom in October. She explained that the choice to lay off several journalists made for an "enormously difficult day for so many people who have given years of their lives to this company."

Roughly 100 of the 1,000 Paramount employees laid off two months ago were affiliated with CBS News.

In a memo to staff, Ellison said that the layoffs were intended to "[address] redundancies that have emerged across the organization,” and to "[phase] out roles that are no longer aligned with our evolving priorities and the new structure designed to strengthen our focus on growth."

DuBois and Dickerson will host the "CBS Evening News" for the next few weeks, and the network will seek their successor over that same time period.