John Dickerson, longtime anchor at CBS News and current co-anchor of CBS Evening News, will exit the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

 

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Dickerson said on Monday that he will depart the network at the end of the year. He currently co-anchors the nightly program with Maurice Dubois, who he had been joined with in an attempt to rejuvenate viewership on the program, per The Hollywood Reporter.

In Dickerson’s announcement, he did not provide a reason for his abrupt exit.

“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’ve made me a better journalist and a better human. I will miss you.”

The widely respected anchor’s exit from CBS comes at a very tenuous time for the company’s cable news division, which has consistently lagged behind its peers ABC News and NBC News in recent years, per The Hollywood Reporter. The program had been reset under the leadership of 60 Minutes‘ Bill Owens, but Owens exited the role shortly afterward, saying that network executives had meddled in the program’s day-to-day activities.

CBS parent Paramount has also been roiled by leadership shakeups and corporate restructurings as of late, leading to the installment of conservative The Free Press founder Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it is not immediately clear what Weiss and co are planning regarding Dickerson’s vacancy.

Dickerson himself had been critical of his own company after Paramount settled with President Donald Trump after he sued the company over a 60 Minutes interview with then-Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, which Trump had accused of being manipulated in favor of Harris, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Dickerson called that settlement a “new obstacle” to fact-based reporting, per The Hollywood Reporter. “Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded away that trust?” he said. “The audience will decide that.”