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In October 2025, Bari Weiss was appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News. This announcement was interpreted by critics as a mark of the organization shifting rightwards in response to the Trump Era, and was likewise praised by Trump himself.[55][56][46] This was shortly followed by layoffs, which - as one former CBS producer alleged - primarily targeted racial minorities at the company, while white employees were simply shifted to other jobs. The total losses were reported around 100 employees, including eight on-air hosts, all of whom were women.[57] Also after the appointments of Weiss and Weinstein as editor-in-chief and ombudsman respectively, the head of the Standards and Practices department for CBS News resigned in October 2025.[58] Amid the editorial changes being undertaken by Bari Weiss, new CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil released a promo promising that the newscast planned to remain objective and editorially independent from politicians, advertisers, and corporate interests (including those of CBS itself). He argued that news media coverage at CBS on topics such as the Iraq war, COVID lockdowns, Hillary Clinton's emails, and Hunter Biden's laptop was "skewed" in favor of "political and academic elites and away from the concerns of normal people".[59] CBS reported its 38-page handbook of principles was reduced to "5 simple values", of which one was "we love America". Variety reported the pro-America pledge "reinforce[d] speculation that Ellison put Weiss in See more