Veteran journalist Lisa Ling said she was not shocked to learn she was among the dozens of CBS News staffers let go this week in a sweeping round of cuts ordered by the network’s new management team.

Ling, 52, confirmed her dismissal in a video posted Thursday on Instagram — one day after CBS’s parent company, Paramount Skydance, slashed roughly 1,000 jobs across its divisions in the first wave of cost-cutting since its $8 billion merger closed in August.

“So yesterday, I got a call from CBS that I was among the massive layoffs at the network,” Ling said in the clip.

“Now this didn’t entirely surprise me, because I wasn’t a full-time employee, but rather a contributor, and we’re easy to cut. My heart, though, goes out to all of those who had been working at the network for many,

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