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(39,465 posts) Tue Jan 27, 2026, 08:45 AM Jan 27

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 Jan 27 OP

Yet another reason to avoid cbs. mwmisses4289 Jan 27 #1

She already did that............ Lovie777 Jan 27 #2

Just like her heroTrump. travelingthrulife Jan 27 #5

"She only wants top-flight performers..." bronxiteforever Jan 27 #3

She also probably thinks she will just "fill in" for everyone that's missing. mdbl Jan 27 #7

'troubled' newsroom? Was it like that before Ms. Berry/whatsis took over? Hmmm? CurtEastPoint Jan 27 #4

It was "troubled".... SergeStorms Jan 27 #16

to this day I will remember Walter Cronkite taking his glasses off and announcing that JFK had died. CurtEastPoint Jan 27 #20

Same here. SergeStorms Jan 27 #24

Sure, that's going to work ThreeNoSeep Jan 27 #6

So now the FCC just foments propaganda on the public airwaves? mdbl Jan 27 #8

Everything Bari Weiss touches dies NBachers Jan 27 #9

Just rename it CBS State Propaganda. highplainsdem Jan 27 #10

CBS - Criminal Backers of the State? Wonder Why Jan 27 #18

See BS underpants Jan 27 #27

Bari Weiss adds new podcasters and writers as CBS contributors demmiblue Jan 27 #11

I was just saying yesterday...... SergeStorms Jan 27 #17

8 million followers? Really? Oh wow... Moostache Jan 27 #31

Boycott advertisers. Let them know too. multigraincracker Jan 27 #12

All that ain't gonna help ya, sister. That I can tell you. MLWR Jan 27 #13

Just how many right wing garbage networks Hey Joe Jan 27 #14

The article was written by David Folkenflik. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 27 #15

Whoever fucking owns CBS News are stupid fascist assholes Mysterian Jan 27 #19

So, CBS will just festure opinion shows and turn into fox. PSPS Jan 27 #21

Just report the news. It's called CBS News. rickford66 Jan 27 #22

The new CBS contributors: demmiblue Jan 27 #23

The only names I recognize are Ferguson Deminpenn Jan 27 #34

I.O.W.s spreading right wing propaganda and calling it news. Botany Jan 27 #25

So, Weiss is doubling down on a losing plan. C_U_L8R Jan 27 #26

So they are going to have opinion segments in the evening news? underpants Jan 27 #28

Breaking News: Bari Weiss has broken CBS News. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 27 #29

Rocky start was intentional to give license to major overhaul bucolic_frolic Jan 27 #30

She's there to do JBTaurus83 Jan 27 #32

Maybe CNN can now get rid of Scott Jennings. Bev54 Jan 27 #33

She's bringing in Niall Ferguson, her co-founder of the disastrous "University of Austin", to spout his RW BS? muriel_volestrangler Jan 27 #35