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Happy Days: Editor-in-Chief of CBS News Bari Weiss attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2026 in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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In tonight’s edition, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has been on a hiring spree that has baffled staffers at CBS’s London bureau. After snapping up the Wall Street Journal’s Shayndi Raice and Sky News’ Sir Trevor Phillips, the wheels are starting to come off the Weiss-wagon across the pond owing to her latest poach from a rival network. Find out below who Weiss hired to become Raice’s new deputy – a position that was already occupied and why Evening News EP Kim Harvey has been roped in to help reassign Weiss’ latest recruit.
Also, our peerless pals at Puck are taking an “if you can’t beat them, join them” approach to growing their subscriber numbers. They’re working on an all-new product that appears to be very similar to an asset that helped The New York Times grow its audience and revenue. We have more on their new offering tonight.
Finally, we have all the media news you may have missed if you were swept up in the glory of the FIFA World Cup final, with a comprehensive reading, listening and watching list.
Mentioned tonight: Kim Harvey, Tanya Simon, Shawna Thomas, Tony Dokoupil, Wendy Fisher, Bill O’Reilly, Sophia Efthimiatou, Pete Gow, David Rhodes, Holly Williams, Trevor Phillips, Claire Day, Shayndi Raice, Bari Weiss, David Zaslav, Jon Kelly, Katie Drummond, Richard Reeves, Vivian Wang, Tony Gallagher, Ryan Heath, Edwina McCann, Matthew Drummond, Aimie Rigas, Chris Janz, Will Hayward, Michael Savage, Amanda Meade, Charlotte Tobitt, Stephen Battaglio, Jess Hassenger, Kai Falkenberg, Michael Grynbaum, Makan Delrahim, Matt Belloni, Hélène Werner, Nicolas Niarchos, Alex Vadukul, Lou Bahet, Peter Lattman, Cami Fateh, Josh Duboff, Sam Falb, Selena Aiyla, Rachel Small, Paul Choix, Clara Molot, Noor Ibrahim, Danika Fears, Elijah Harlow, and more.
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