Alexandra Steigrad
@AlexSteigrad
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Media Reporter @nypost | Email: [email protected] / [email protected] | DM for Signal / WhatsApp
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Joined February 2011
Leaked HR MEMO: CBS offers buyouts to ‘Evening News’ staff, pitching them as ‘extraordinary chance to leave’ https://t.co/FP7rYrHsP8
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The email said the network is "extending a one-time voluntary buyout program to all eligible 'CBS Evening News' non-union staff employees," noting that interested employees had until Feb. 2 to accept.
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Am told buyouts were offered to the majority of "Evening News" staffers
Leaked HR MEMO: CBS offers buyouts to ‘Evening News’ staff, pitching them as ‘extraordinary chance to leave’ https://t.co/FP7rYrHsP8
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Leaked HR MEMO: CBS offers buyouts to ‘Evening News’ staff, pitching them as ‘extraordinary chance to leave’ https://t.co/FP7rYrHsP8
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The email said the network is "extending a one-time voluntary buyout program to all eligible 'CBS Evening News' non-union staff employees," noting that interested employees had until Feb. 2 to accept.
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Gayle King slams leaks about her future at CBS: 'People come and pet me like a puppy'
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"We've had a lot of incoming people come and pet me like a puppy and say, 'I'm so sorry that you're leaving CBS. I won't watch you guys again. It's not the same place.'"
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Bari Weiss lays out vision for CBS News, shoots down accusations she was 'pressured' to shelve '60 Minutes' segment
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"I want to say this as plainly as and clearly as possible. I was not pressured by David Ellison or anyone else," Weiss said.
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NEW: Bari Weiss plans to tell staff today she’s adding new podcasters & writers as CBS contributors, including some from @TheFP like conservative historian Niall Ferguson, & popular science podcasters Andrew Huberman & Peter Attia @axios
https://t.co/46I1VjJcmk
axios.com
Weiss is importing an upstart newsroom model into a legacy media organization, prioritizing independent voices with built-in, loyal followings.
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CBS News employees were invited to an all-hands meeting tomorrow at 11 am. “Please join Bari Weiss to talk about the future of CBS News.”
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NEWS: The Washington Post's foreign correspondents, including those in Ukraine, are pleading with Jeff Bezos not to slash the paper's coverage of the world. "We urge you to consider how the proposed layoffs will certainly lead us first to irrelevance and later extinction."
Update on turmoil at the Washington Post that I’ve been following w @BenMullin: Foreign correspondents at WaPo have sent a letter, a “collective plea,” to owner Jeff Bezos raising alarm over impending staff reductions, which are expected to land hard on international coverage.
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Exclusive | CBS News shows, Stephen Colbert on track for record-low January ratings
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Sources pointed to left-leaning Colbert's consistent drumbeat of criticism of President Trump.
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🚨 Exclusive | Sharyn Alfonsi, Scott Pelley's jobs are on the line after pushing back against Bari Weiss' CBS News shakeups: sources
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"Everybody has a boss and they need to realize that Bari Weiss is theirs," a source told The Post.
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'60 Minutes' to air updated segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison after Bari Weiss shelved it | New York Post
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"60 Minutes" aired an updated version of a critical segment on the Trump administration and El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison after it was pulled last month by editor in chief Bari Weiss.
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Scoop: Hudson News could stop carrying magazines in Tri-State Area locations including airports starting next month. More here:
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Still, glossies like People that are more tied to weekly newsstand sales will feel the impact, insiders said.
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Scoop: Hudson News could stop carrying magazines in Tri-State Area locations including airports starting next month. More here:
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Still, glossies like People that are more tied to weekly newsstand sales will feel the impact, insiders said.
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🚨 Exclusive | Publishers panic that Hudson News could stop carrying their mags -- ‘asteroid killing off the dinosaurs’ | New York Post
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Still, glossies like People that are more tied to weekly newsstand sales will feel the impact, insiders said.
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Queen Elizabeth II 'blocked Netflix boss from Windsor Castle reception' after on-screen portrayal https://t.co/tm8xwA669d
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The monarch's fury reportedly centred on the award-winning drama, The Crown
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Here's what Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says about today's FBI search:
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From a CBS rep: “This is not a segment for broadcast. This is not a real title. This is not a real sponsor. And this is not a real story. This is simply an experimental mockup the graphics team created with placeholder text for a potential non-televised, in-person private event.”
Update — Here is another clearer view of the "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" staging at CBS News:
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remember Gourmet? Condé Nast apparantly didn't, and a group of writers have snaked the trademark away from its former owner. Delicious story from @jtes: https://t.co/uZsoFAORYL
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Brutal news for a city and for the news industry. This paper won a Pulitzer Prize under stellar editor David Shribman for its 2018 coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre.
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