Overview
- Weiss detailed a push to recruit 19 commentators, expand podcasts, newsletters and live events, and publish online before TV as part of a newsroom-wide reset.
- Reactions inside CBS ranged from enthusiasm to skepticism, with some employees questioning whether a contributor focus conflicts with core reporting, according to multiple staff accounts.
- At the all-hands meeting, Gayle King backed Weiss’s approach and criticized internal leaks, drawing both applause and disappointment from colleagues, per reports.
- Management has circulated buyout offers as additional changes take shape, while outside reports continue to spotlight uncertainty around King’s role as her contract approaches May.
- Weiss paused her ‘Honestly’ podcast to concentrate on CBS, and she promoted new franchises such as the Things That Matter town halls featuring figures including JD Vance, Sam Altman and Wes Moore.