Norah O’Donnell will leave the anchor chair at last-place “CBS Evening News” after the 2024 presidential election amid expected cost-cutting by parent Paramount, the network said Tuesday.
O’Donnell, who took over the seat in 2019, re-upped her contract with CBS News in 2022 — despite speculation that the she would be replaced.
Her salary, however, was rumored to be substantially slashed from the $8 million a year when she was hired, as The Post exclusively reported.
The show’s ratings have also been in the tank during her five years in the anchor seat — plunging roughly 25% and cementing the newscast firmly behind rivals at ABC and NBC.
“She deserves to lose her job,” one CBS insider told The Post after hearing about her exit.
The replacement won’t be any improvement. They’d get better rating with cartoon reruns, and viewers would be spared the politics.
Nora was just like leslie stahl, you could see she was almost smiling when she reported the bogus news articles on Trump.
Good riddance.
You know she back stabbed the shit outta Jeff Glor to get this job.
Glad she will be gone.