CBS News Slashed With Deep Cuts, and Its New Editor Is Looking to Make Some Big Changes at 60 Minutes

No, Bari Weiss isn’t the lead Grim Reaper at CBS News, but she is making her mark elsewhere, which we’ll get to in a second. Weiss is the new editor-in-chief after the CBS parent company bought her Free Press publication, which she built from scratch following her very public departure from The New York Times. Weiss isn’t a conservative, but a classical liberal, which did not jive well with the illiberal, lefty masses of her former employer’s newsroom. She’s also pro-Israel. While Weiss will cut the fat, the deep cuts were already baked into the equation long before she was hired. $2 billion in cuts are slated, so staffers are obviously on edge (via The Guardian).