2 h. ago Bari Weiss changed anchor Tony Dokoupil’s script minutes before his awkward CBS Evening News debut, report says

‘First day, first day, big problems here,’ Dokoupil griped to viewers after a teleprompter malfunction

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5 d. ago More chaos at CBS Evening News as producer fired just days into Tony Dokoupil’s ‘embarrassing’ tenure

Javier Guzman, who has been the program’s senior broadcast producer since August, was dismissed after Wednesday night’s broadcast.

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6 d. ago Tony Dokoupil’s ‘embarrassing’ first days at CBS Evening News savaged by staff: ‘It’s state TV’

EXCLUSIVE: In a conversation with one of his handlers during an ad break, Pete Hegseth said during his interview with Tony Dokoupil that ‘we did it at Bari's request and because CBS News did something right on this.’

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6 d. ago CBS Evening News joins Kristi Noem on an ICE raid after Bari Weiss’ 60 Minutes controversy

Noem’s high-profile interview on CBS Evening News came after the network’s new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered investigative show 60 Minutes to spike a report on Noem’s agency sending detainees to a brutal Salvadoran prison

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7 d. ago ‘First day, big problems here’: Tony Dokoupil runs into some issues during his relaunch of ‘CBS Evening News’

It was the latest embarrassment for a renowned news network still struggling to adapt to its controversial takeover by Trump-friendly new owners and their hand-picked editor-in-chief Bari Weiss

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8 d. ago ‘Blood in the water’: Bari Weiss’s chaotic first three months in charge of CBS News

Weiss is embroiled in her first major controversy as editor in chief as her handpicked anchor takes evening news showTaking charge of CBS News in early October with no television industry experience, and already facing both deep skepticism from many network employees and a faltering business model, Bari Weiss began with a lot working against her.Still, her three months as editor in chief have been more chaotic than even many of her critics expected. “There is blood in the water,” said one CBS News journalist, who, like the others quoted in this story, was not authorized by the network to comment. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Private jets, armed security and ‘Bari pitches’ including jet

EXCLUSIVE: The new CBS News editor-in-chief has chartered private flights for her armed security detail, made last-minute logistical changes and fired off ‘Bari Pitches.’ Weiss is once again accused of creating behind-the-scenes turmoil with her decision-making ahead of CBS Evening New’ latest reboot

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1 week ago Tony Dokoupil promises the new CBS Evening News will be independent from its corporate owner: ‘you come first’

‘I report for you,’ Dokoupil said in a video message Thursday

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3 w. ago ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor chokes back tears during emotional farewell amid Bari Weiss revamp

‘Thank you for watching. Good night and good luck,’ the two CBS News anchors said together at the end of the broadcast.

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last month ‘It’s not a coincidence’: journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti

Black and brown former employees from CBS, NBC and Teen Vogue talk about the effects of being let goTrey Sherman was traveling to work on the New York subway when he received an email from David Reiter, a CBS News executive, about an imminent meeting on 29 October. Sherman, an associate producer of CBS Evening News Plus at the time, suspected that he would be laid off. CBS News’s parent company, Paramount, had closed a merger with the Hollywood studio Skydance in August, and planned to slash more than 2,000 jobs as part of corporate restructuring.Sherman, who is Black, and Reiter, who is white, had an amicable conversation, according to Sherman. Reiter told Sherman that he was being laid off because his show was being eliminated, Sherman said, and that Reiter was unable to assign the team to other positions. Sherman accepted the news and the two men wished each other good luck. Continue reading...

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