Bari Weiss Reportedly Planning 'Imminently' to Layoff Dozens of Staffers at CBS News

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 19th, 2026, 6:08 pm


CBS News chief Bari Weiss is reportedly planning the “imminent” layoff of dozens of staffers as she looks to remake the network for the digital age. Weiss first made mention of the cuts several weeks, according to Business Insider — as she told CBS News employees that a “tsunami of technological change” could lead to changes at the network.

“I can’t stand up here and tell you that in a moment of incredible transformation that that’s not going to mean transformation of our workforce,” Weiss told staffers at a late-January town hall meeting.

During the meeting, Weiss said CBS was shifting away from “commodity news” in favor of exclusive reports that can’t be found “anywhere else.” “If you can get what we’re selling in five other places, in 10 other places, in 100 other places — that’s probably not a thing we need to double down on,” Weiss said.

Weiss also indicated she wants CBS News to attain digital dominance in the field, and said she’s “looking to hire more people who can help CBS transform into a digital-focused company,” Business Insider reported.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bari-weiss-reportedly-planning-imminently-to-layoff-dozens-of-staffers-at-cbs-news/

[lapfog_1]

1. just fire everyone, including yourself

tell the Ellison's to just have AI write and deliver your government propaganda and be done with it.

[WSHazel]

2. Weiss is really an idiot

CBS News will become a wasteland, and she will be fired within a year.

The thing is, the barriers to entry for a news organization are pretty low. The world doesn’t need CBS News, and I think there will be new entries in the market over the next few years that will actually be good for the news industry.

[3Hotdogs]

9. WILL become a wasteland?

[ck4829]

23. For real

[mwmisses4289]

3. CBS started going downhill in the 1990's.

It's news has always been in last place (this was when ABC, NBC, AND CBS were still the major sources of news). Usually ABC and NBC would alternate top spot. CBS did have good programming for other shows, but their news always sucked.

[The Wizard]

4. With Weiss being a right wing Trump acolyte running CBS News

How are the ratings or revenue numbers doing?
It turns out that giving in to Trump's whims and chicanery results in temporary success and long term failure.

[dem4decades]

5. who needs CBS/Trump News anyway, they're just going to rebroadcast Fox.

[mysteryowl]

6. Personally, I avoid anything CBS now just the same way I avoid FOX cable, CNN, and X.

Since CBS is moving more and more into digital, there are more and more CBS clips available.
I have even seen liberal CBS clips posted, I still avoid those since the entire network is RW propaganda.

[Iris]

7. What she says doesn't even make sense. How will they get stories you can't find anywhere else by using the same

"technology" (whatever that means) as everyone else?

[FakeNoose]

11. It's all written by AI now, haven't you heard?

They don't need actual humans anymore, except as newsreaders. Pretty soon the on-air personalities will be computer generated too. Any wonder why their ratings have cratered?

[drray23]

20. By making up stories to push propaganda

Instead of objective news. So, yes it won't be found anywhere else because it won't be based on actual news.

[travelingthrulife]

29. Have AI just make it up? That way it is exclusive to them.

[wolfie001]

8. billionaires oppose the free exchange of ideas

Heavens to Murgatroyd if one of those wealthy pigs catches some flack or criticism. Spineless weasels.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "Heavens to Murgatroyd"

Thanks wolfie! That got me a Friday blast from the past laugh!

[wolfie001]

16. Boomer humor!

Exit stage left!

[BumRushDaShow]

18. ...

[ck4829]

24. Bingo!

[Swede]

12. Is this her Waterloo, or her East Wing?

[QueerDuck]

13. She has no plans. She's making-it-up-as-she-goes-along ... reacting to each situation, chasing butterflies in the wind.

[Ritabert]

14. I hope she knows she'll have no viewers.

I've abandoned the network altogether. Their prime time lineup stinks anyway

[BonnieJW]

17. I used to watch 60 minutes and Sunday morning

Now I don't watch anything connected to the cbs logo


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[Ritabert]

19. Agreed.

[ck4829]

25. They only want a couple... billionaires and the government

Why appeal to the masses when you can appeal to billionaire checkbooks?

[Ritabert]

32. True.

[lostincalifornia]

27. I am one who stopped watching CBS after Ellison bought it.

[travelingthrulife]

15. If you can't do your job, fire people to change the subject.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. If you're broadcasting news that can't be found in 5 or 10 other places, ...

... you're probably publishing completely made-up bullshit.

[travelingthrulife]

30. This. She is gonna let AI run wild.

[oasis]

22. I've got a digit Weiss can focus on. __

[lostincalifornia]

26. All the KCBS radio stations are being shut down nationally. It was one of the few places on the radio where they

actually reported the news, so it is no surprise that this incompetent that they put in charge of CBS news is doing what she is doing.

[Midnight Writer]

28. "Imminently" now means 47 plus years, right?

[ms liberty]

31. I am really annoyed when I'm forced to watch CBS right now

They have the NCAA tourney. I've dropped every other CBS show, but I gotta see the tournament.

[RainCaster]

33. It's has been on TBS

That's where I watched until Gonzaga lost.

[ms liberty]

35. Not Duke, here in NC their Division is running on CBS.

I'll watch other games, but Duke is my team.

[RainCaster]

34. No more CBS, Sinclair or CNN in our house

No reason to watch any of that mediocrity.

[GenThePerservering]

36. She's flailing

The whole point was to eviscerate CBS, so they put an incompetent in charge.