Bari Weiss plans to hire 18 "paid commentators" and will cull non-loyalists lacking "I HEART BARI" bumper stickers
CBS News chief Bari Weiss plans to lay out her newest vision for the network in an all-staff meeting that would sideline some veteran journalists, it was reported Tuesday.
The network's recently installed editor-in-chief plans to tell staffers that she intends to hire 18 "paid commentators" and make significant cuts to the newsroom. She will announce that she only wants top-flight performers who back her approach to remain with the news division, reported NPR.
The details of Weiss' plans were revealed by three sources inside CBS News with direct knowledge of the strategy, and NPR based its report on interviews with eight current and former CBS News journalists who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The former conservative opinion writer and editor for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal was hired last fall by Paramount's new owner, Larry Ellison, to reshape the network's news division after the parent company's previous owners settled a $16 million lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over a 2024 pre-election interview with Kamala Harris.
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