October 30, 2025 - UPDATED with additional layoffs: The cuts at Paramount have also hit the international TV distribution side of the business. Deadline understands that Lisa Kramer, LA-based President, International TV Licensing at Paramount Global Content Distribution will exit. Kramer’s division has been notching sales for King & Conqueror and, off the back of its Cannes launch, Boston Blue, in recent weeks. As the sales engine for many CBS ...

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.

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October 29, 2025 - CBS News anchor John Dickerson becomes latest figure to exit network ... Overall, Paramount will lay off about 1,000 staffers on Wednesday, part of a longer-term plan that would double that number of cuts.

The CBS Building in New York City. Paramount Global has let go of nearly two dozen people at its CBS News division as part of a broader action involving layoffs across its company, according to a report.

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 29, 2025 - There are more big changes coming for CBS News, but for the first time in a while, they can’t be traced to new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. Paramount underwent a round of layoffs today, eliminating 1,000 jobs across the company.

October 30, 2025 - Ellison wrote in an email to staff, “Today we begin the difficult process of informing impacted team members across the company. These decisions are never made lightly, especially given their effect on our colleagues who have made meaningful contributions to the company.” · While the moves were a gut punch to the company, especially those who are now without jobs, the cuts did not come as a surprise. As the Los Angeles Times wrote, “Paramount’s new owners — Ellison’s Skydance Media and RedBird Capital Partners — had told investors they planned to eliminate more than $2 billion in expenses, and Wednesday’s workforce reduction was a preliminary step toward that goal.”

October 31, 2025 - Approximately 100 jobs across the news division were affected by the move, part of a larger round of cost cutting at the struggling media conglomerate, which has suffered losses in ratings and ad dollars and lags many of its rivals in its ability ...

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, ...

November 11, 2025 - Tech scion David Ellison marked his 96th day running Paramount by disclosing an upbeat financial outlook for next year and a plan to cut an additional 1,600 workers.

October 30, 2025 - Around 1,000 employees were affected by this round of layoffs, with another round of approximately 1,000 expected in the coming weeks. That second batch is believed to be more focused on international operations, as Wednesday’s layoffs cut ...

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 29, 2025 - CBS News eliminated multiple streaming programs on Wednesday as part of newsroom-wide layoffs, just one part of Paramount’s sweeping job cuts and a blow to the news organization’s headcount as Bari Weiss’ already turbulent tenure as editor in chief gets into full swing.

September 24, 2024 - Like the entire Media industry, ... up for continued success, we are taking these actions, and after today, 90% of these reductions will be complete....

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June 10, 2025 - Paramount Global said Tuesday that the entertainment and media company is cutting 3.5% of its workforce, citing challenges in the broader U.S. economy and in the linear television business.

November 3, 2025 - CBS News has disbanded its race and culture unit as part of sweeping layoffs at parent company Paramount Global that began on Wednesday.