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Embattled Bari Weiss says she is not ‘focused’ on declining 60 Minutes ratings

CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing ‘tremendously well’

CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has spoken publicly for the first time about the ratings challenges the network has experienced under her year-long tenure, sidestepping concerns about diminished viewership at the Sunday show 60 Minutes by saying it was not her top priority.

“I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday,” she said at an industry conference on Wednesday organized by the tech publication the Information. The news organization did not offer press credentials.

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© Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press

© Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press

© Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press

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