‘CBS Evening News’ Shocker: Fox News’ Bret Baier Reportedly Being Eyed as New Anchor
What To Know
- CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is reportedly considering Fox News anchor Bret Baier as a potential new anchor for CBS Evening News.
- The network has recently shifted CBS Evening News to a magazine-style format with John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois as hosts.
- Since these changes and the departure of former anchor Norah O’Donnell, the show’s ratings have declined.
CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is ready to put her stamp on the network as she eyes potential candidates to take over CBS Evening News, including Fox News anchor Bret Baier, according to recent reports.
As reported by Oliver Darcy’s Status newsletter, Weiss has been “quietly canvassing” for a fresh face to helm the flagship show, with Baier one of the names floated for the job. However, as Darcy pointed out, Baier extended his contract with Fox News in 2023 through 2028, making an immediate move to CBS highly unlikely.
Baier joined Fox News in 1998, initially serving as the network’s Atlanta bureau chief before becoming the Pentagon correspondent in 2001, a role he held for five years. In 2007, he was named the network’s White House correspondent and also began substituting for Brit Hume, then the anchor of Special Report, on Fridays. He went on to take over as Special Report anchor permanently on January 5, 2009, a position he’s held ever since.
Weiss is known for founding The Free Press with her spouse, Nellie Bowles. The publication started life as a newsletter in 2021 before growing into an associated media company in 2022. Paramount Skydance acquired the site on October 6, and Paramount CEO David Ellison hired Weiss as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.
It was previously reported that Weiss had been meeting with staffers and reporters as she looks to shake up CBS Evening News, including the show’s former anchor, Norah O’Donnell, who hosted the program from July 2019 to January 2025. Status also reports that CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil is among the names being considered for the position.
CBS decided to make significant changes to its Evening News broadcast earlier this year, with John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois taking over as hosts. Rather than focusing on the latest headlines, the show is now more of a 60 Minutes-style magazine format, airing longer segments on specific topics.
Despite the changes, CBS Evening News‘ ratings have dropped since Dickerson and DuBois took over, averaging 4.1 million total viewers per episode, according to Nielsen, compared to O’Donnell’s average of 4.8 million.
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People have finally figured out the fake news games by CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN.
Its a liberal propaganda pushing agenda, and their terrible ratings are proof.
They are doing as well as the American hating democratic party.
Hahahaha...
I can't wait to watch all of these morons vote in a communist Muslim in NYC.
Get your popcorn ready...
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MSM is failing, I know of no one who watches it because of the liberal propaganda
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It’s only propaganda if it comes from the left, huh?
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Yes pretty much 100%. Congrats you got it Right !!
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If Brett goes to CBS ( which I hope he doesn’t) it’d be a great upgrade to them. Kind of like the ballroom will be a great upgrade to the WH !!
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A while back I read that in Orban's Hungary, most of the cable news is like Fox News. It sounded terrible. We are quickly on our way in the U.S.
I fear that Americans drastically underestimate the impact of propaganda on the political process. We may soon go from 38% of voters have Fox Brain Rot to 70% of voters having it as they are submerged in utter nonsense.
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A shame. The format change to give us more context, less hype, less false urgency (as ABC and now NBC do), they dropped gigantic obvious titles plastered across the bottom half of the screen, BREAKING NEWS branding went away and now it’s returned (the news could have broke many hours ago). Dickerson and DuBois have had crisp writing and delivery. Direct Q&A (unlike ABC) has helped viewers grasp more detail. There’s always a good storyteller to wrap up the broadcast too.
Does Ms. Weiss have a clue? She thinks she can buy out a cable host’s contract?
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Yes. David gets too excited
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Gee, I wonder if Trump is behind any of this?
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Well ya think?
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All the Truth that Brett would bring would cause CBS to spontaneously combust !! They can’t handle the Truth !! 🤣
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Would guarantee I never watch CBS News again. They’re already suspect for paying Trump off as a bribe to get the sky dance merger. Baer has proven himself to be dishonest and partisan. Bari Weiss going to out the final nail in the Tiffany network. Find a new Walter Cronkite
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That’ll be an IMMEDIATE end of me watching their news if someone from Faux Newz takes over
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Yes as you like to continue to hear the Lies of MSM and continue to be indoctrinated by the liberal left. It’s understandable as TDS is a mental health issue.
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CBS becoming Fox NoNews?Great. I've stopped watching CBS Evening News because of all the advertisements. I can atleast mute when they do the stupid one liners at the bottom of the screen. A lot less content now.
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