Maurice DuBois will exit 'CBS Evening News' to make way for a new anchor

Maurice DuBois is pursuing his co-anchor John Dickerson retired the doorway of “CBS Evening News.”

DuBois announced his departure from the web Thursday successful an Instagram post.

“Moving on: December 18th is the time of my past broadcast connected CBS News,” DuBois wrote. “It has been the Honor of a Lifetime.”

Dickerson announced his exit from the programme successful October. The co-anchors joined the broadcast successful January, succeeding Norah O’Donnell.

A replacement for some anchors is expected to beryllium announced successful January. The enactment volition beryllium the archetypal large endowment determination nether CBS News exertion successful main Bari Weiss.

DuBois and Dickerson were portion of an ill-fated experimentation to bring much long-form, “60 Minutes”-style reports to the evening quality format, wherever viewers historically similar a brisk recap of the day’s events.

The format failed to get traction successful the ratings. “CBS Evening News” continues to way “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir” and “NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas.”

The conception was developed by erstwhile “60 Minutes” enforcement shaper Bill Owens, who near the institution successful August amid the contention implicit a 2024 interrogation with erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris.

President Trump sued the web implicit the interview, which helium said was deceptively edited to assistance her statesmanlike campaign. Although the lawsuit was labeled frivolous by 1st Amendment experts, Paramount settled the suit for $16 cardinal to wide the regulatory way for its merger with Skydance Media.

Before joining “CBS Evening News,” DuBois, 59, was a section anchor astatine WCBS successful New York for 20 years and was antecedently a staple of the city’s NBC station.