CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs under new leader Bari Weiss. All of them are women

[sheshe2]

"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-10-30T21:54:57.802Z

After weeks of nerve-racking anticipation, Paramount finally followed through with its “tough day” of layoffs, which included letting roughly 100 CBS News employees go on Wednesday. All told, the sweeping cuts resulted in the loss of two streaming shows, the gutting of the network’s Saturday morning news program, and the disbanding of its race and culture unit.

On top of that, eight on-air correspondents and hosts were given their pink slips – and all of them are women, with half of them people of color.

According to three sources with knowledge of the situation, a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute.

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While the layoffs have been anticipated since chairman David Ellison took over Paramount in August following its politically fraught merger with Skydance Media, they also take place after Ellison promised the Trump administration that he’d eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion policies once he took over the company.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cbs-news-layoffs-eight-women-b2855655.html

[Nittersing]

1. We're gonna have to rely on other country news agencies... nt

[rurallib]

2. I listen to the CBC daily

[pfitz59]

20. I live on Seattle-land

Vancouver CBC airs down here. Much better news

[RockCreek]

11. I already do

The Atlanyic and Mother Jones are the only US media I follow.
Except for DU as a clearinghouse, of course.

[Joinfortmill]

30. Yup, and lots of good independent stuff on Youtube, for now anyway.

[Pinback]

31. Reuters, The Guardian, and AP

have become my top choices. Pathetic what’s being done to what was once the greatest TV news operation in the world.

[WmChris]

35. BBC

BBC airs on NPR here in Illinois.

[erronis]

3. Another post on DU said that all fired CBS producers were people of color.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220759272

Not sure if both of these are accurate but there's probably too much truth to ignore.

[Initech]

4. Bari Weiss is a fucking psychopath.

[malaise]

5. Looks like Norah O'Donnell had the most sense and walked

before the shit went down
Rec

[sheshe2]

6. Hey, malaise, how are you doing tonight?

[malaise]

7. Reality is just sinking in

People are missing in some of those mashed up coastal homes
The death toll is rising.
My sources told me yesterday at least 50. 19 confirmed so far

[Solly Mack]

10. Damn. I am so sorry.

[sheshe2]

13. That was a devastating storm.

I am so sorry to hear about the death toll of the souls you lost, malaise.

[malaise]

16. Way to many of those homes could'n't weather that storm surge, wind, rain9

and the time hurricane Melissa took to move.
Few survive Cat 5.

n’t

[Skittles]

24. do you have any recommendations on where to donate

thank you

[malaise]

26. The folks I trust say GEM

https://www.globalempowermentmission.org/disaster-relief/

[Skittles]

38. I will indeed check them out

[Mike Nelson]

8. Well, they could always get a job at...

... FOX "News" - IF they look good in amin-skirt while sitting on a couch or stool.

[chouchou]

12. Good one!

[UTUSN]

9. Them and all to come more experienced and talented than Bari WEISS.

[Deuxcents]

14. Welp..gonna look into getting some coverage from BBC..PBS World has it but only about 30 minutes or so

[brer cat]

15. There goes DEI, easy peasy.

[sheshe2]

17. What a bland world it will be without it.

[SocialDemocrat61]

18. Four losers

[sheshe2]

19. Hahahaha...perfect.

And Mikie in his shorts!

[aggiesal]

21. Called it ...

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20759427

[aggiesal]

22. Time to boycott there most popular program. Sad to say it's 60 Minutes. n/t

[moonscape]

23. End of an era for that show.

[calimary]

25. Well, that's a shame, but it's gotta happen.

Boycott!!! Absolutely positively and Absitively posulutely!!!

[hunter]

40. I've been boycotting all television news and opinion since the run-up to the slaughter in Iraq...

... after 11 September 2001.

I've been boycotting all advertising supported television since January 2012.

Whatever people say about Walter Cronkite or Sixty Minutes I think television news and opinion in the U.S.A. has always been corrupt to some extent. It started to go truly rotten with Ronald Reagan.

Beyond the news, I subscribed to Paramount streaming long enough to watch two seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds but I didn't find enough there to interest me, in either Strange New Worlds or Paramount in general to justify the cost. If I need a Star Trek fix there are still dozens of Star Trek novels on my bookshelf I haven't read yet.

My take on "traditional" television is rather harsh: Traditional television made Trump, Traditional television must die. I'm a pacifist so my only recourse, or nearly so, is to encourage people to abandon it.

I seem to be a happier person without television and have similar feelings about "social media." DU is my only social media.

Maybe boycotts will convince CBS to offer something more than token resistance to the fascists. But at this point, reduced to being little more than a brand name trading hands, the world might still be a better place if they simply withered away.

[nycbos]

27. She used to seem reasonable in interviews I saw of her.

I agreed with some stuff she said and disagreed with others. But that was normal levels of discourse. If I remember correctly she is from Pittsburgh and the Tree of Life was her synagogue growing up.

But know it seems like she realized she can cash in after drinking the maga cool aid.

As a fellow Jew I find people like her disgusting.

[paulkienitz]

28. Apparently CBS News is all-in on fasch now.

A sad end to the heritage of Murrow and Cronkite.

I wonder how much of Sixty Minutes will remain.

[Joinfortmill]

29. FUCK CBS! WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!

[lonely bird]

32. If we get a Dem president

Pull their license.

Fuck the oligarchs.

[MichMan]

34. On what grounds?

[lonely bird]

36. Discrimination

I really don’t give a damn.

[calimary]

41. Only problem is, the GOP will go to the ends of the earth

to ruin a Democrat in the White House, even if it means they’ll eventually be hurt, too.

Sometimes, I swear, I don’t understand the Republicans. I don’t know how they willingly make life harder for those different from themselves. I just don’t get that one.

That said, I can’t see myself EVER becoming convinced that the Republican way is THE way to go. There’s too much wrong with it, and just too damn much I can’t agree with.

[Botany]

33. Gonna eliminate D. E. I.? i.o.w. you don't need

to be nice to people who aren't like you.
Aka it is OK to be a prejudice unthinking
A-hole. News flash! 8 billion people on planet earth and almost every one doesn't
Look like you, has sex like you, has religious views like you, or speaks like you
do, and that is OK.

[SpankMe]

37. Goebbels would approve

Cronkite is turning in his grave. This is bad.