CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss’ round-the-clock security detail is seeking new recruits — and the network says successful applicants may be ex-Navy SEALs who look “great in a suit,” The Post has learned.
A spokesman for the recently installed editor in chief of CBS News shared a tongue-in-cheek job description with The Post on Thursday as he confirmed Weiss has been guarded by a phalanx of beefy guards due to death threats over her strong support for Israel.
“If you’re a former Navy SEAL who can bench 400 pounds and looks great in a suit, please contact jobs@thefp.com,” a spokesperson for Weiss told The Post on Thursday, referencing the email address for job inquiries at her news site The Free Press.
The Post previously reported that she has been protected by eight guards at all times, costing about $10,000 per day. Weiss was recently spotted with the detail while attending a media conference on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Witnesses who saw the bodyguards up close on Oct. 21 described them to Breaker News as “beefy” men with “chiseled” physiques and rugged good looks that resembled those of Matthew McConaughey and Enrique Iglesias.
The heightened security measures are specifically in response to threats that relate to Weiss’ staunch support of Israel, sources told The Post.
Weiss’ wife Nellie Bowles is also receiving protection, Variety reported.
CBS News has stepped up security for all of its executive leadership, according to Variety, which quoted an insider as saying everyone in the C-suite has received threats.
She took the helm of the struggling organization last month with a mandate to shake it up following David Ellison-led Skydance’s takeover of CBS’ parent company Paramount in 2024.
Paramount Skydance bought Weiss’ online outlet The Free Press for a cool $150 million as she became editor in chief of CBS News.
Weiss has long been known for her strong support of Israel, proudly calling herself a “Zionist fanatic.”
After Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of about 1,200 Israelis, she took to social media to blast her former employer, the New York Times, for citing pro-Palestinian experts who praised the terrorist assault.
In one of her posts, Weiss linked to a 2021 profile that the Times wrote about a Palestinian academic, Refaat Alareer, who taught Israeli poetry at Islamic University in Gaza City.
After the Oct. 7 attacks, Alareer publicly called into question claims that Hamas terrorists had burned Israeli toddlers alive and sickly joked that they may have been cooked “”with or without baking powder.”
“What’s going on here? Pretty simple,” Weiss wrote in an Oct. 30, 2023 post on X.
“Institutions are a reflection of their people,” she continued. “This is what happens when a newspaper is overrun by reporters and editors, trained at elite schools, who have embraced a ‘decolonial’ worldview. Reader, beware.”
Weeks after Weiss’s post, Alareer was killed in an Israeli military strike.
Before his death on Dec. 6, 2023, he wrote on X: “If I get killed by Israeli bombs or my family is harmed, I blame Bari Weiss and her likes.”
Some pro-Palestinian social media users went on to blame Weiss for Alareer’s death.
She hasn’t publicly addressed the inflammatory allegation.
Weiss, 41, is looking to quickly put her stamp on CBS News. She is said to be mulling over plans to shake up “60 Minutes” while also potentially looking to install a big name to anchor “CBS Evening News.”
