CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss reportedly took the organization’s president Tom Cibrowski by surprise as she tapped former Wall Street Journal editor Charles Forelle as one of her top deputies. Weiss announced the move during a Tuesday morning editorial call,

As Weiss navigates her first month at CBS News, she’s reportedly considered various household names to help her fulfill her mission of “building the most trusted news organization of the 21st Century” while also generating buzz for a network whose programming has faced a precipitous ratings decline and drawn political scrutiny.

Bari Weiss is poised to revamp one of the nation’s most venerable down-the-middle news outlets, CBS News. The question is, will she be able to make money for corporate parent Paramount Skydance after doing so?

Weiss met with Jennings at the Tiffany Network's New York headquarters last week, according to the news site Semafor.

Saying he was ‘flattered’ by all of the media attention the speculation has received, Bret Baier added that ‘we’ll see what happens at the end’ of his Fox News contract.

Newly appointed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is wasting no time shaking things up — and insiders say her first big swing is a direct hit at The View by developing a brand-new daytime panel show — NOT a reboot of The Talk — that is quietly being billed as The Right View.

Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, has announced the acquisition of The Free Press. Its co-founder and CEO, Bari Weiss, will join CBS News as editor-in-chief.

John Dickerson is leaving CBS News at the end of the year as Bari Weiss takes over as the new editor-in-chief. Dickerson has been with the network since 2009 and, in January of this year, began co-anchoring the CBS Evening News alongside Maurice DuBois.

Baier addressed speculation that CBS News, now helmed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, is eyeing him to front its flagship Evening News broadcast.