Overview
- Multiple outlets citing Page Six report that Weiss is protected by roughly eight bodyguards and travels in a convoy of SUVs at an estimated cost of about $10,000 per day.
- Photographs published in recent weeks show Weiss arriving at events with several guards, including images of six bodyguards at a New York gathering in late October.
- The disclosure follows CBS News layoffs of about 100 staffers that also cut digital shows, scaled back the Saturday morning program, and shuttered the race and culture unit, according to The Independent.
- CBS News and Paramount did not respond to requests for comment on the scope or rationale for Weiss’s security arrangements.
- Weiss became editor-in-chief in early October after Paramount Skydance acquired her outlet The Free Press, and multiple reports note she had little prior TV news experience.