CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff ‘we’re toast’ if they continue on current path

Addressing her staff three months into her job as CBS News boss, Bari Weiss on Tuesday invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking and said that if the network continues with its current strategy, “we’re toast.”

Weiss announced the hiring of 18 new contributors and said CBS News needs to do stories that will “surprise and provoke — including inside our own newsroom.”

Weiss, founder of the Free Press website and without broadcast news experience before being...