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

Debra Saunders-Commentary : Oct 15, 2025
The Daily Signal

One former CBS News staffer told the New York Post, "I think there's some CBS old-timers who would rather see the brand fail and lose their jobs than embrace change. It's a snake pit."

(Washington, DC) — [DailySignal.com] The knives are out for CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded... (Screengrab image: via The Free Press /YouTube)

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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 resign for running a piece that advocated using US troops to squelch violent George Floyd riots. The piece was written by a US senator, Tom Cotton, R-AR.

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Weiss had been one of their targets, so she walked away. Then she did something really different; she co-founded The Free Press on the Substack platform...

The Free Press took off. Weiss got a big payday, and Monday she takes the helm of a big news organization... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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Debra Saunders is Washington columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal distributed by Creators.com.