A beloved and established anchor in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex announced this week that she was laid off by her parent company. Nicole Baker, who co-anchored nightly newscasts for KTVT (CBS Texas) in Fort Worth, revealed the news of her dismissal to her social media followers Thursday afternoon.
“After more than 12 years as an on-air journalist and more than seven years with the company, I was impacted by yesterday’s sweeping layoffs at Skydance Paramount via CBS News,” Baker wrote on Thursday.
Paramount laid off 1,000 workers nationwide on Thursday as part of a plan to cut $2 billion in expenses across the company.
Baker became co-anchor of the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. CBS 11 newscasts with Doug Dunbar in 2022. CBS 11 transitioned to the new branding of CBS Texas in February 2023, and the station dropped its 6 p.m. newscast in August 2023. A 7 p.m. newscast from sister station KTXA started in September of that year. Dunbar remains with CBS Texas as an evening co-anchor.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Baker graduated from Spellman College in Atlanta, Ga., and previously worked at WJZ in Baltimore, WJCL in Savannah, Ga., and WJFW 12 in Rhinelander, Wis.
Baker said on social media that after three-and-a-half years at CBS Texas, she “is so excited because I know who is holding the pen. He can see what I cannot and I trust in that.”
“I’m more than grateful for the time to recalibrate and rejuvenate myself from the inside out while I figure out what comes next,” Baker added.
CBS Texas has already wiped Baker’s biography off its website’s staff page.
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