CBS News Staffers Won’t Be Disciplined for Not Responding to Bari Weiss Memo, Union Says

The New Editor-In-Chief Of CBS News Is Not Like The Others

By Debra Saunders, The Daily Signal | October 15, 2025 The knives are out for CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded. Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock.What’s more, Weiss owes this windfall in part to liberal bias.The one-time New York Times opinion writer quit the Times in 2020 after Chairman A.G. Sulzberger for…

The New Editor-in-Chief of CBS News Is Not Like the Others

WASHINGTON—The knives are out for CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded. Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock. What’s more, Weiss owes this windfall in part to liberal bias. The one-time New York Times opinion writer quit the Times in 2020 after Chairman A.G. Sulzberger forced Editorial Page Editor James Bennet to …

CBS News Staffers Won’t Be Disciplined for Not Responding to Bari Weiss Memo, Union Says

CBS News staffers won't face discipline if they decline response to a memo from new editor in chief Bari Weiss that put the Paramount newsroom on edge