<p>CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing ‘tremendously well’</p><p>CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has spoken publicly for the first time about the ratings challenges the network has experienced under her year-long tenure, sidestepping concerns about diminished viewership at the Sunday show 60 Minutes by saying it was not her top priority.</p><p>“I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday,” <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cbs-bari-weiss-tells-critics-judge-journalism">she said at an industry conference</a> on Wednesday organized by the tech publication the Information. The news organization did not offer press credentials.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/28/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes">Continue reading...</a>
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Embattled Bari Weiss says she is not ‘focused’ on declining 60 Minutes ratings
<p>CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing ‘tremendously well’</p><p>CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has spoken publicly for the first time about the ratings challenges the network has experienced under her year-long tenure, sidestepping concerns about diminished viewership at the Sunday show 60 Minutes by saying it was not her top priority.</p><p>“I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday,” <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cbs-bari-weiss-tells-critics-judge-journalism">she said at an industry conference</a> on Wednesday organized by the tech publication the Information. The news organization did not offer press credentials.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/28/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes">Continue reading...</a>