Tues. AM: New CBS boss promises "huge emphasis on scoops." Tues. PM: CBS Evening News anchor interviews his mom

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11. Move fast and break things like a start-up

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/business/media/bari-weiss-cbs-news-town-hall.html

Bari Weiss Urges CBS News to Think Like a ‘Start-Up’
“We are not producing a product enough people want,” Ms. Weiss told employees at her first all-staff meeting at the network.
By Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin
Jan. 27, 2026

Bari Weiss, the recently hired and frequently discussed editor in chief of CBS News, began her first networkwide meeting on Tuesday by addressing the obvious.

“There’s been a lot of noise around me taking this job,” she told hundreds of CBS staff members gathered in bureaus across the globe. “I get it. I also get why, in the face of all this tumult, you might feel uncertain or skeptical about me.”

The bumps of Ms. Weiss’s early tenure have been heavily chronicled, including her contentious decision to postpone a “60 Minutes” segment and rocky moments on a revamped “Evening News.”

“We are not producing a product enough people want,” she said, while dismissing day-to-day Nielsen ratings as an outmoded benchmark. “What winning looks like writ large for this company is building incredible journalism for audiences that are so much bigger than the one that we currently have,” she added.

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