CBS News Cuts 6% of Staff as Bari Weiss Reshapes the Division
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The layoffs affected several dozen employees at the news division, which is owned by the technology heir David Ellison.
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Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT CBS News Cuts 6% of Staff as Bari Weiss Reshapes the Division The layoffs affected several dozen employees at the news division, which is owned by the technology heir David Ellison. Listen · 3:10 min Share full article 0 By Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin March 20, 2026, 11:04 a.m. ET CBS News announced a fresh round of layoffs on Friday as the network continued to reshape its news division under the leadership of its editor in chief, Bari Weiss. More than 60 jobs, or roughly 6 percent of the news division, are set to be eliminated under the plan, according to a person who requested anonymity to share internal details. “Certain parts of this newsroom need to get smaller in order for us to make room for the things that we need to build to remain competitive in the future,” Ms. Weiss, who started her job in October, said during a newsroom-wide conference call on Friday, according to a recording. The news division also laid off about 100 employees last year. The layoffs on Friday include the entirety of CBS News Radio, a century-old division that broadcast Edward R. Murrow’s historic World War II dispatches from London. “CBS News Radio served as the foundation for everything we have built since 1927,” Tom Cibrowski, the president of CBS News, wrote in a memo. CBS came under the control of David Ellison, a billionaire tech heir, after his Hollywood studio Skydance absorbed the media giant Paramount last year. The Trump administration approved Mr. Ellison’s purchase after Paramount paid $16 million to settle a suit brought by President Trump against “60 Minutes.” Mr. Ellison said he wanted CBS News to appeal to a centrist audience, and he installed Ms. Weiss, an opinion journalist and critic of the mainstream news media, as its new leader. She made swift changes, re-engineering “CBS Evening News” and hiring new contributors, arguing that the news division needed to more quickly adapt to the digital ...
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