NBC and CBS Cuts Hit Race and Culture Verticals

NBC and CBS cuts hit race and culture verticals

On Wednesday, CBS News parent company Paramount — newly merged with Skydance — began laying off more than 2,000 employees, including at CBS News, which recently installed Free Press founder Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. The news comes about two weeks after NBC News laid off about 150 people. Layoffs are common everywhere these days, and particularly in media, but these two in particular are worth writing about because of one commonality: Wh…

CBS ‘Race And Culture’ Unit Dies Swift Death As Outlet Sheds Jobs Under Bari Weiss

By Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation |  October 29, 2025 CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’ tenure began with significant layoffs announced by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison in a memo Wednesday, according to The Guardian. The cuts, planned before she was named to the post, affect roughly 100 staffers at CBS News, including virtually all of the outlet’s “race and culture” section, The Guardian reported, citing Puck News repor…

BARI'S MAGA BLOODBATH AT CBS: Mass Firings, More To Come

Let's watch this slow-motion horror as Bari Weiss continues the MAGAfication of the once-proud CBS News! Via the Daily Beast: The new boss of CBS News, anti-woke opinion journalist Bari Weiss, axed a series of its shows Wednesday and fired dozens of staff. Weiss, who was named editor-in-chief of the network when CBS’s new owner David Ellison bought her Free Press website, told staff it was an “enormously difficult day.” The wider Paramount compa…

CBS Staffer Calls Layoffs a 'Bloodbath,' Race and Culture Unit 'Gutted'

CBS News faces massive layoffs, impacting 2,000 staff, including its race and culture unit.

'Bloodbath': CBS 'Race and Culture' unit dies swift death as network sheds jobs * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

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Bari Weiss offers ‘support’ to laid-off CBS News staffers: ‘My door is open’

The steep cuts to the news division included the entire race and culture unit, two streaming shows and the bureau in Johannesburg. Additionally, the network’s Saturday morning news show was gutted and its two hosts were let go.