Overview
- The New Yorker published a report Monday laying out how Bari Weiss’s leadership since the Ellison family’s 2025 purchase has been an uneasy fit for many CBS News staffers.
- Weiss’s early meetings included the exhortation, “Let’s do the f*cking news!,” and a memo requiring every employee to detail how they spend their working hours and recent output.
- The piece recounts Weiss urging expanded coverage of Iran protests based on online videos that a senior reporter warned included footage from three years earlier.
- Staff described Weiss being accompanied by bodyguards inside CBS offices, which one producer called offensive.
- Weeks after Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes investigation into alleged abuses at El Salvador’s CECOT because it lacked the administration’s rationale, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi’s planned D.C. interview did not materialize and the segment ultimately aired Sunday without substantial administration comment.