Bari Weiss sh*tcans CBS News Radio because "the news business is changing radically, and we need to change with it" [View all]

“Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026,” wrote Weiss and (CBS News President Tom Cibrowski), who have shared leadership of the venerable news network since parent company Paramount Skydance acquired Weiss’s online publication, the Free Press, in October and named her editor in chief. “Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

That announcement followed an earlier notice Friday that CBS News would be cutting jobs across a newsroom that includes its broadcast TV network. A person familiar with the company’s operations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose nonpublic information, said the cuts would affect about 6 percent of CBS News. Without specifying, the person added that other newsroom divisions beyond the radio team would also be affected by layoffs.

“It’s no secret that the news business is changing radically, and that we need to change along with it,” Weiss and Cibrowski wrote in the first memo.
Weiss and Cibrowski framed the cuts as part of a painful but necessary process to rebuild the network once defined by authoritative anchors such as Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather. Its flagship primetime broadcast, “CBS Evening News,” was lagging in ratings when Weiss announced in December that she would replace its co-anchors with veteran journalist Tony Dokoupil.

“New audiences are burgeoning in new places, and we are pressing forward with ambitious plans to grow and invest so that we can be there for them. That means some parts of our newsroom must get smaller to make room for the things we must build to remain competitive,” they wrote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/20/cbs-news-bari-weiss-layoffs/