After just 18 months, Jeff Glor will step down as CBS Evening News anchor after Friday’s broadcast.
Norah O’Donnell won’t take the reins of the evening newscast on a permanent basis until this summer, and it remains to be seen who will serve as the bridge between Glor and O’Donnell.
Anthony Mason served as the bridge between Scott Pelley and Glor in the fall of 2017, but Mason starts his CBS This Morning co-host role May 20. It would be asking a lot of him to anchor the network’s morning and evening newscasts.
Glor joined the network in April 2007 from WHDH in Boston, and was named anchor of the CBS Evening News in late 2017. His first broadcast as anchor on a permanent basis was December 4 2017.
Prior to sitting behind the iconic Evening News desk and in a role once held by Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather, Glor previously anchored CBS’ The Early Show, the weekend edition of the Evening News. He had also reported for CBS Sunday Morning, Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports, and occasionally filled in on the weekday edition of CBS This Morning.
Glor was also the original anchor for CBS News’s streaming service CBSN when it launched in November 2014.
A true “utility player,” as they say in baseball.
It will be interesting to see where Glor takes his broadcast journalism chops next, whether it be in a different role at CBS (perhaps as a CBS Sunday Morning correspondent), or to another network altogether. CBS News has stated publicly it hopes Glor will stay. Whether he wants to after what has gone down is an entirely different story.
Variety was first to report the news of Glor’s Friday departure.