October 29, 2025 - Paramount on Wednesday began cutting about 1,000 employees, the first wave of a deep staff reduction planned since David Ellison took the helm of the entertainment company in August.

October 30, 2025 - With Paramount Global’s headcount at 18,600 globally as of the end of 2024, dwarfing that of Skydance (about 1,300), the vast majority of the cuts are coming from the Paramount side.

October 29, 2025 - Paramount laying off about 1,000 staffers, including some in news, on Wednesday amid longer-term cost-cutting plan ... For months, CBS News staffers have been on edge waiting for a long-expected round of layoffs as part of the $2bn in cost-cutting ...

October 18, 2025 - Other appointments include Cindy Holland, Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, who play key roles at Paramount’s streaming and film divisions. George Cheeks, who oversaw CBS before the deal, has remained at the company with the new title of “Chair of TV Media.”

October 29, 2025 - Oct. 29, 2025 · Paramount on Wednesday began laying off more than 2,000 employees, a long-awaited consequence of its merger with the Hollywood studio Skydance. The cuts, announced internally by David Ellison, Paramount’s chief executive, ...

October 30, 2025 - In widely expected job cuts after completing its $8 billion merger with Skydance, Paramount has begun layoffs set to impact about 2,000 employees.

October 17, 2025 - Paramount layoffs coming this month and hitting CBS News, streaming, the film studio and more divisions.

October 31, 2025 - CBS News’ Saturday morning broadcast will look less distinct than the rest of the division’s morning-news programming, according to a person familiar with the matter, following layoffs across parent corporation Paramount Global unveiled Wednesday.

November 7, 2025 - Messages relating to layoffs at Paramount Global are presented below the company info. ... Paramount Global, formerly known as ViacomCBS is now part of Paramount Skydance Corp. Paramount is a leading global entertainment company that produces, distributes, and streams content across film, television and digital platforms. Its portfolio includes brands such as CBS...

October 30, 2025 - After weeks of nerve-racking anticipation, Paramount finally followed through with its “tough day” of layoffs, which included letting roughly 100 CBS News employees go on Wednesday.

November 4, 2025 - Wednesday’s Paramount layoffs have hit CBS News, with a source saying that every corner of the news division has been impacted.

October 20, 2025 - After FCC approval for the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance came through, it became likely that layoffs would take place.

August 18, 2025 - I cancelled paramount, Disney and Hulu. Disney is gonna pull some bullshit again. ... Lucy's ghost is going to haunt the shit out of those asshats. ... Hope the workers land on their feet. Layoffs might save money short term, but they hurt the quality of the work long term

October 29, 2025 - A CBS News representative declined to comment. The cuts are part of parent company Paramount’s reduction of 1,000 employees across all of its divisions.

October 20, 2025 - Makan Delrahim, who advised Skydance on the Paramount acquisition, was named chief legal officer; former Meta executive Dane Glasgow was appointed chief product officer; and Roku’s Jay Askinasi became chief revenue officer. Other key executives include Cindy Holland, Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, who lead major streaming and film units. George Cheeks, who previously ran CBS, now serves as Chair of TV Media.

October 30, 2025 - That massive reduction began Wednesday as 1,000 staffers — somewhere between 5% and 10% of the organization — were laid off. And this is just the beginning. The Los Angeles Times’ Meg James and Samantha Masunaga reported, “People familiar ...

October 30, 2025 - Messages relating to layoffs at Paramount Global are presented below the company info. ... Paramount Global, formerly known as ViacomCBS is now part of Paramount Skydance Corp. Paramount is a leading global entertainment company that produces, distributes, and streams content across film, television and digital platforms. Its portfolio includes brands such as CBS...

October 21, 2025 - Since closing the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media in August 2025, there’s already been a flurry of C-suite and upper management hires, including the controversial appointments of the former head of a right-leaning think tank with no traditional journalism experience as ombudsmen for CBS News and naming a new editorial leader for the division who lacks significant large-scale newsroom management, as well as any experience in TV network news also known for her right-leaning views.

August 27, 2025 - Paramount job cuts under the new Skydance regime are coming in an effort to exceed $2 billion in efficiencies. 2,500 to 3,000 to be eliminated.