CBS News has its first high-profile exit following the hire of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief earlier this month.

John Dickerson, the co-anchor of the CBS Evening News , said Monday that he will leave CBS News at the end of the year. Dickerson currently anchors the evening newscast alongside Maurice Dubois, having been paired up early this year in a bid to reboot the program.

It is not immediately clear why Dickerson is leaving CBS.

“Local news: At the end of this year, I will leave CBS, sixteen years after I sat in as Face the Nation anchor for the first time,” Dickerson wrote on Instagram. “I am extremely grateful for all that CBS gave me— the work, the audience’s attention and the honor of being a part of the network’s history— and I am grateful for my dear colleagues who

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