Bari Weiss was hired by Paramount Skydance to generate new attention for CBS News . In her first few days as the unit’s new editor-in-chief, she has already succeeded.

Weiss told CBS News staffers in a memo Friday that she was eager “to understand how you spend your working hours — and ideally, what you’ve made (or are making) that you are most proud of.” She asked every employee at the news division to send her a memo offering those details, as well as “your views on what’s working; what’s broken or substandard; and how we can be better.”

“Please be blunt,” she urged. “It will help me greatly.” All responses, she added, “will be held in the strictest of confidence.” The goal of the exercise, she said, “is simple — I want to familiarize myself with you — and I want you to do the sam

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