CBS Moves Ahead With News Staff Job Cuts

by Jarrett Martineau | April 1, 2008 at 05:00 pm

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The axe is about to fall at CBS News with almost 1,200 network employees expecting to be laid off.

News operations at CBS stations in several cities started a series of job cuts this week as the network itself, CBS News, moved ahead with plans to lay off about 1 percent of its nearly 1,200 employees.
Over the last several days, layoffs were ordered at local stations that CBS owns, including ones in New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. Dana McClintock, a spokesman for CBS, said the actions at the network and the local stations were not related.