For a sense of Bari Weiss’s approach to leading CBS News in her first weeks on the job, consider a phrase the new editor in chief has used as a rallying cry in meetings with colleagues: “I wanna blow this up.”
Weiss, the former New York Times columnist turned anti-woke crusader, is working to overhaul the organization’s evening news program, counter what she sees as a left-leaning bias in legacy media and make the newsroom operate more efficiently.
She has been given a mandate for change by David Ellison, the new owner of CBS parent company Paramount, which bought her news and opinion platform the Free Press for $150 million.
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