Dickerson has hosted CBS Evening News with co-host Maurice DuBois since January. He is also the co-host of CBS This Morning, a correspondent for 60 Minutes and is the news division's political director and chief Washington correspondent.

John Dickerson is ready to face his next chapter.

Dickerson is the first major on-air talent to depart CBS News since the installation of The Free Press' Bari Weiss as the network's editor-in-chief in October.