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(39,380 posts) Tue Jan 27, 2026, 08:45 AM Tuesday

After rocky start, Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News [View all]

Source: NPR

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has scheduled an all-staff meeting for late Tuesday morning at which she intends to announce the strategic path she wants the troubled news division to take.

Weiss is planning to tell her newsroom Tuesday that she intends to hire approximately 18 paid commentators and that she only wants top-flight performers committed to her approach to stick around.

Weiss is also expected to make significant cuts to the newsroom.

The details above are affirmed by three people inside CBS News with direct knowledge of the broad strokes of her plans. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about internal network matters.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689849/after-rocky-start-bari-weiss-to-cut-staff-add-commentators-at-cbs-news

The Bari Weiss plan is for CBS News to employ fewer reporters charged with finding things out and more (right-skewing) commentators charged with telling them what to think. Same playbook Wash Post is using. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T13:38:40.303Z

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After rocky start, Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News [View all] demmiblue Tuesday OP

Yet another reason to avoid cbs. mwmisses4289 Tuesday #1

She already did that............ Lovie777 Tuesday #2

Just like her heroTrump. travelingthrulife Tuesday #5

"She only wants top-flight performers..." bronxiteforever Tuesday #3

She also probably thinks she will just "fill in" for everyone that's missing. mdbl Tuesday #7

'troubled' newsroom? Was it like that before Ms. Berry/whatsis took over? Hmmm? CurtEastPoint Tuesday #4

It was "troubled".... SergeStorms Tuesday #16

to this day I will remember Walter Cronkite taking his glasses off and announcing that JFK had died. CurtEastPoint Tuesday #20

Same here. SergeStorms Tuesday #24

Sure, that's going to work ThreeNoSeep Tuesday #6

So now the FCC just foments propaganda on the public airwaves? mdbl Tuesday #8

Everything Bari Weiss touches dies NBachers Tuesday #9

Just rename it CBS State Propaganda. highplainsdem Tuesday #10

CBS - Criminal Backers of the State? Wonder Why Tuesday #18

See BS underpants Tuesday #27

Bari Weiss adds new podcasters and writers as CBS contributors demmiblue Tuesday #11

I was just saying yesterday...... SergeStorms Tuesday #17

8 million followers? Really? Oh wow... Moostache Tuesday #31

Boycott advertisers. Let them know too. multigraincracker Tuesday #12

All that ain't gonna help ya, sister. That I can tell you. MLWR Tuesday #13

Just how many right wing garbage networks Hey Joe Tuesday #14

The article was written by David Folkenflik. mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday #15

Whoever fucking owns CBS News are stupid fascist assholes Mysterian Tuesday #19

So, CBS will just festure opinion shows and turn into fox. PSPS Tuesday #21

Just report the news. It's called CBS News. rickford66 Tuesday #22

The new CBS contributors: demmiblue Tuesday #23

The only names I recognize are Ferguson Deminpenn Tuesday #34

I.O.W.s spreading right wing propaganda and calling it news. Botany Tuesday #25

So, Weiss is doubling down on a losing plan. C_U_L8R Tuesday #26

So they are going to have opinion segments in the evening news? underpants Tuesday #28

Breaking News: Bari Weiss has broken CBS News. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Tuesday #29

Rocky start was intentional to give license to major overhaul bucolic_frolic Tuesday #30

She's there to do JBTaurus83 Tuesday #32

Maybe CNN can now get rid of Scott Jennings. Bev54 Tuesday #33

She's bringing in Niall Ferguson, her co-founder of the disastrous "University of Austin", to spout his RW BS? muriel_volestrangler Tuesday #35