Late Tuesday, word broke via Puck’s Dylan Byers that CBS Saturday Morning co-host, former CBS Evening News anchor, and longtime network mainstay Jeff Glor was being laid off as part of cost-cutting measures by parent company Paramount that aims to trim roughly 15 percent of its U.S. workforce.
Along with Glor, Deadline and others have shared that other on-air cuts include longtime consumer correspondent Anna Werner, climate correspondent Ben Tracy, and correspondent Roxana Saberi.
The Daily Mail, the New York Post, Deadline, and the Los Angeles Times to name a few have been on the case. The Post had this to say about why Glor was let go: “A source close to the situation speculated that Glor’s salary was ‘too high’ and that he largely kept to himself, opting not to play ‘office politics’ or stick his neck out much since being moved to weekend…
