Paramount lays off 800+ Including CBS journalist Catherine Herridge

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Several CBS News reporters were caught up in layoffs at Paramount Global that claimed 800 jobs, including one who is embroiled in a high-stakes First Amendment fight — and another who has reportedly weathered HR probes over his workplace behavior, The Post has learned.

Catherine Herridge — an award-winning senior correspondent whose First Amendment case is being closely watched by journalists nationwide — was among the hundreds of employees at CBS parent Paramount who got pink slips on Tuesday, sources told The Post.

Insiders said that Herridge had clashed with CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews — a sharp-elbowed executive who was investigated in 2021 over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices, as revealed by The Post.

Sources said that CBS News’ Washington bureau where Herridge covered national security and intelligence was hit particularly hard.

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When the incident was investigated in 2021, insiders said Ciprian-Matthews attempted to “blame” the female correspondent and eventually gave Pegues a promotion — despite prior allegations that Pegues had been “lashing out” and “bullying” younger female reporters who “outworked” him, a former CBS manager told The Post.

Also among those laid off on Tuesday was Christina Ruffini, a political correspondent who has been featured on “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell,” “CBS Mornings” and “CBS Sunday Morning.” Also cut was Pamela Falk, CBS News correspondent for the United Nations based in New York, according to sources.

A CBS source said, CBS News, which employs just under 2,000 people, got hit with 20 job cuts altogether.

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