We're offering a 2-week trial of WrapPRO for $1. If you’ve been wanting to check out our full coverage, now’s the time. Greetings!Paramount brought the axe down on CBS News once again, and it appears CBS News Radio bore the brunt of the cuts. CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and President Tom Cibrowski on Friday announced a 6% reduction in the staff, which totaled around 1,100 workers. Notably, the cuts include the shuttering of CBS News Radio, which will go offline in May. CBS no longer owns the radio stations — it sold them back in 2017 — but the unit regularly produced content for the CBS radio affiliates. As our Corbin Bolies writes, journalists across the media industry lamented the decision to end the network, which launched in 1927 and was the last of the original three radio networks to remain in operation after the NBC Radio Network and the Mutual Broadcasting System ended in 1999. “CBS News Radio is an institution, where generations of the finest journalists in the country spent their careers reporting the news and holding people in power to account,” the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) said in a joint statement. Media professor Michael Socolow questioned in an X post the decision to let the radio network’s talent go, particularly as more news outlets lean into audio through podcasts. “My guess is this is the easiest way to replace CBS News radio with Free Press podcasts,” he wrote, referring to Weiss’ anti-woke website that CBS News-parent Paramount purchased in October. It's just the latest example of cuts that have ravaged the media business over the last few years, with few outlets spared despite their size. Last month, the Washington Post cut a third of its staff, with the Wall Street Journal, Vox Media, Bustle Digital Group and tech news publications like CNET and Future also going through layoffs this year. The worst part for CBS News: the bloodletting may not be over. Once Paramount acquires Warner Bros. Discovery, it will be seeking at least $6 billion in merger cost savings and taking on $79 billion in debt. It's unlikely everyone at CNN and CBS News will survive if those operations end up combining. It's been a grind the last few days. Hope you all get some rest over the weekend. Roger Cheng Before we move on, be sure to follow me on my socials linked below for the latest updates. DMs are open for tips.    
The cuts to CBS News represent just the latest blow to the historic media organization, but it could have been worse... 
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