CBS News chief Bari Weiss set to remake network's iconic 60 Minutes: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 01 April 2026 12:53 EDT


CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is planning major changes to the network’s iconic “60 Minutes” program, according to a new report.

Weiss has privately told people she wants to revamp “60 Minutes,” one of the highest-rated TV news programs, journalist Oliver Darcy reported Tuesday in his Status newsletter. The award-winning show, which first aired in 1968, is known for its in-depth, investigative reports.

Weiss had been looking to make changes mid-season but following discussions with CBS News president Tom Cibrowski and other leaders, she agreed to wait until the show’s current season ends in May, according to the report. The top editor is expected to “blow it up as soon as the season is over,” one source familiar with the issue told Darcy, while another staffer said that “no one knows what to expect.”

Details of Weiss’ vision remain unclear but she is expected to bring in new correspondents who are younger and more aligned with her editorially. She’s also playing an active role in decisions that typically fall to the program’s executive producer, such as staffing, Darcy reported.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes-b2950171.html

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Link to REPORT (email or subscription required) - Bari's ‘60’ Blow Up Plan (Oliver Darcy was a former CNN reporter)

[AZ8theist]

1. In other words...

DESTROY the iconic program, and turn it into a Fascist mouthpiece in the mold of Fox News or Info Wars.

Here's hoping the new shows' ratings go in the toilet.

[RockRaven]

2. If you are still watching CBS News in any form including 60 Minutes, you are

an active participant in your own subjugation.

[QueerDuck]

3. CBS is already a cesspool... they should all jump in and go for a swim.

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. Who cares. CBS is trash.

Nothing they do matters to rational clear thinking people. It's a real shame.
The Felon's America has become a real sh*t show.

[chowder66]

5. Hahahahahaha. April's fool!

[eringer]

6. 60 Minutes will Morph into Entertainment Tonight

How exciting. 🤮🤕🤮🤕🤮🤮☠️☠️

[LSparkle]

26. I need to watch "Broadcast News" again ...

Along with “Network.” Both were incredibly prescient about where our media has gone. Ned Beatty’s boardroom scene with Peter Finch about atonement is absolutely classic and still rings frighteningly true.

[Ritabert]

7. Boycotting everything on CBS including primetime..

[lostincalifornia]

8. If it isn't broken you don't fix it.

[City Lights]

9. "Remake" "ruin."

She is horrid.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. "Bari Weiss set to remake network's iconic 60 Minutes"

Here it comes.

[usonian]

11. So, 60 magas instead?

Asking for a friend.

[pecosbob]

12. With new anchor James O'Keefe I expect...

[FakeNoose]

13. Ho-hum, nobody's watching ... nobody cares ...

When will Bari Weiss finally be fired?

[Dulcinea]

19. Not soon enough.

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But eventually Ellison will lose so much money he'll have to fire her.

[RainCaster]

27. Ellison knows that remaking a company to please one person

Will be very expensive. He will keep her around as long as TSF make happy noises about CBS. Once Trump is gone, she will go too. By then, all the broadcast networks will be tanking. Permanently.

[orangecrush]

14. It was nice while it lasted

[miyazaki]

15. Carly Fiorina is her business management folk hero.

[lastlib]

16. Guess I'm done watching it now. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

17. She was hired to DESTROY CBS. Bye bye Bari!!!!!

I'm sure you and Bill Maher are celebrating tonight. You and CBS are toast.

YOU are the April FOOL of the day, month, year, and decade.

[BidenRocks]

18. Do it!

Just don't use the name "60 Minutes" or the watch ticking.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. She'll fuck that up too

Change CBS to See BS.

[Marie Marie]

21. Yes, because all the ways you have already "remade" CBS News has been so successful.

Even in the face of her abject failure thus far, she remains convinced of her superior ideas. With that kind of blind hubris, she should be working for the Trump administration. Please proceed Bari...

[Beartracks]

25. Rightwingers are always cocksure of the superiority of their ideas.

I know, I know, Weiss says she's a "Democrat without a home" or somesuch, but if she walks like a rightwinger, talks like a rightwinger, acts like a rightwinger, agrees with rightwingers, and makes up stuff like rightwingers, then she's a rightwinger.

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[mdbl]

22. CBS died when Skydance bought Paramount

Bari Weiss is just one of the undertakers.

[EuterpeThelo]

23. This one hurts

60 Minutes is one of those shows I grew up watching with my dad, along with Jeopardy (before Faux "News" poisoned his brain in the final decade or so of his life).

[moonscape]

24. It really does. We always watched it

together also, and I’ve been recording it since.

[LSparkle]

28. I still miss CBS Sunday Morning

It was great back in the Osgood days. I haven’t watched much since Pauley took over and since I’m now off CBS I won’t be tuning in again for the foreseeable future 😢.