Bari Weiss Plans Overhaul of CBS News After ’60 Minutes’ Controversy

Bari Weiss, the newly named editor-in-chief of CBS News, plans to create a masthead for the network as part of an overhaul of standards and procedures amid turmoil over a scuttled “60 Minutes” segment, a source told Axios.

The masthead is meant to drive a more streamlined hierarchy and set of processes across show and news gathering teams that are intended to prevent disparate editorial procedures and standards, Axios reported.

A CBS News segment about Venezuelan men detained in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison after being deported by the Trump administration is drawing backlash after it was blocked from airing in the United States but appeared in Canada and circulated widely online.

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