60 Minutes opens 59th season after correspondent firings and departures
The 60 Minutes 59th season launches amid a sweeping leadership overhaul and months of internal turmoil, including the firing of top producers and several correspondents such as Scott Pelley. Under Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton, the program pursues a new approach while leaning on veteran hosts and a slate of new contributors—Ross Douthat, Norah O'Donnell, Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni, Trevor Phillips, and Ariel Levy—to modernize coverage.
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About Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is an American journalist and political commentator who has served since October 2025 as editor-in-chief of CBS News. She was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017 and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020, resigning in a widely covered public letter criticizing the paper's culture. In 2021, Weiss founded the media company The Free Press and launched the podcast Honestly.
Everything about Bari Weiss →- Occupation
- journalist, columnist, opinion journalist, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 25, 1984, 1984
- Website
- https://www.bariweiss.com/
