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John Oliver sounded an alarm about billionaire David Ellison’s hiring of Bari Weiss as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. Oliver devoted the bulk of his monologue on Last Week Tonight to Weiss’s career as a former New York Times opinion writer and then founding editor of The Free Press,
To write or not to write? CBS News staffers were grappling with conflicting orders Monday, according to three people familiar with the matter, after some producers at the Paramount Skydance news unit urged reporters and journalists to respond to an eyebrow-raising memo from new Editor in Chief Bari Weiss that drew criticism last week from
Bari Weiss' first week as the editor-in-chief of CBS News was marred by the network's minimal coverage of the growing scandal plaguing Virginia Democratic hopeful Jay Jones.