Bari Weiss

It was exactly the kind of story that has animated this show and the free press from the very beginning.

A story that complicated what had been a two-dimensional headline and that served to remind us of our most basic values, values that over the past few years, too many seem to have forgotten.

Since that conversation with Majdi Wadi, we have made nearly 400 episodes of Honestly.

We've covered everything from big ideas to difficult debates, from politics and culture to technology, religion, and war.

We've been with you through moments of global crisis, elections, and domestic upheaval.

And we've tried to bring you serious thinking, real disagreement, and voices that you just weren't hearing anywhere else.

If I sound mushy right now, it's because I love making this show and I'm not done making it.

But as you may have heard, if you have an internet connection, I've also taken on a new role and that's as editor-in-chief of CBS News.

It's a huge responsibility and it's an extraordinary opportunity to bring the values that drive this show and that drive the free press into a much bigger arena.

And that is the mission of journalism that is fair,

fearless, and factual.

Journalism that reports on the world as it actually is, that respects the audience enough to tell them the truth plainly, wherever it leads.

It's journalism that embraces a wide spectrum of views and voices so that people can contend with the best arguments on all sides of a debate.

It's a mission that puts journalism that rushes toward the most interesting and important stories, no matter what, at the center of everything we do.

In a sentence, my job is to take the values and the vision that you have supported and stood behind, hear it honestly, and bring it to CBS News.

So here's the news.

Honestly is taking a little bit of a pause.

It's exploding.

We have a growing slate of podcasts and shows that illuminate our world in surprising and provocative ways.

These shows will make you smarter, wiser, and dare I say, happier too.