CBS News Correspondent Trevor Phillips Says Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss: ‘Will Either Change the World or Crash and Burn’

Recently-appointed CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips has given a typically forthright assessment of his new boss, Bari Weiss. “Bari and her team have a huge tanker of a network news organisation to turn around, and they are assembling a little team on the bridge,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
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Recently-appointed CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips has given a typically forthright assessment of his new boss, Bari Weiss. “Bari and her team have a huge tanker of a network news organisation to turn around, and they are assembling a little team on the bridge,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “The great thing about her is that she’s one of those people who will either change the world or crash and burn. But when they crash and burn, it’s in technicolour.” Phillips, who has been a correspondent for the U.K.’s Sky News since 2021, was handpicked by CBS News editor-in-chief Weiss to join the Paramount-owned network as senior global affairs correspondent.
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- Recently-appointed CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips has given a typically forthright assessment of his new boss, Bari Weiss. “Bari and her team have a huge tanker of a network news organisation to turn around, and they are assembling a little team on the bridge,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
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CBS News Correspondent Trevor Phillips Says Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss: ‘Will Either Change the World or Crash and Burn’
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