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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-19T14:24:27.000Z",
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    "Breaking News",
    "Politics",
    "Republican Party",
    "Media",
    "CBS",
    "CBS News",
    "Paramount",
    "Warner Bros.",
    "Merger",
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  "textContent": "Bari Weiss might soon be forced to hand over the reins to CBS News.\n\nAs Paramount closes in on its potential deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, executives at the networks are considering avenues to remove Weiss from her position overseeing CBS News.\n\nThe top brass is reportedly having informal discussions about changing Weiss’s mandate, particularly as the groups look ahead to a potential merger with CNN. Instead, they would bring in a new, more experienced executive to run the department, giving Weiss “less control over the linear product,” reported Puck News Monday.\n\nIt’s unclear how formal the talks to reorient Weiss have been, but she would likely lose day-to-day control over several major CBS properties, including _Evening News,_ _CBS Mornings,_ and _60 Minutes._ Weiss would maintain broad editorial influence but would largely be shifted to oversee the news division’s digital growth.\n\nA spokesman for Paramount told Puck that “Bari has the full support of Paramount and David Ellison as the editorial leader overseeing CBS News and _60 Minutes_. Reports suggesting otherwise are inaccurate.”\n\nWeiss, the founder of the pro-Israel blog The Free Press and a former _New York Times_ opinion columnist, was tapped as the newsroom’s newest chief late last year, despite the fact that she had never worked in broadcast, lacked traditional reporting experience, and had also never run a major news operation.\n\nHer tenure has so far lasted seven months, but her business decisions atop the news giant have unequivocally and single-handedly divorced CBS News from its decades-long place within America’s prestige news media circuit.\n\nWhat was once crowned the “gold standard” of broadcasting, and the home of some of journalism’s most venerable names, such as Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, has since devolved into a graveyard for journalism ethics.\n\nUnder Weiss’s stewardship, CBS News has killed critical stories in order to save face for the Trump administration. In December, Weiss pulled the plug on a _60 Minutes_ segment investigating the result of Donald Trump’s mass deportation program, focusing on Venezuelan immigrants who had been deported to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal CECOT mega-prison.\n\nThe network has also lost a cadre of veteran journalists, whom Weiss replaced with the likes of Peter Attia—who was ousted from his role as an on-air contributor shortly after his hiring was announced due to his various ties to Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nYet Weiss’s appointment was merely the cherry on top of a large portion of recent chaos at CBS. In the last year, parent company Paramount undermined itself by settling multimillion-dollar lawsuits with Trump over CBS’s fair and accurate coverage (in an apparent bid to butter up the administration ahead of a multibillion-dollar merger with SkyDance). That resulted in the loss of two storied showrunners, including _60 Minutes_ producer Bill Owens and CBS News chief Wendy McMahon, who rejected Paramount’s approach to handling the groundless lawsuit.",
  "title": "Bari Weiss Is Already Losing Power at CBS News"
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