Report: Paramount to Acquire The Free Press for $150M, Name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News
Paramount plans to invest up to $200 million to acquire The Free Press and appoint Bari Weiss to steer CBS News editorial strategy amid efforts to reverse ratings decline.
- Paramount Skydance will acquire The Free Press for approximately $150 million and appoint Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.
- The deal is part of Paramount's strategic move to reshape CBS News after addressing past allegations of bias during the Trump administration.
- Bari Weiss has previously criticized traditional media and garnered attention for her center-right journalism approach.
- The acquisition is expected to finalize on October 6 and may influence CBS News's direction towards a more assertive role in media.
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CBS News to appoint former NYT opinion writer as new editor-in-chief
CBS News will reportedly appoint Bari Weiss as the news outlet’s editor-in-chief according to several reports. The announcement is expected to come on Monday. Who’s Bari Weiss? Weiss is a former New York Times opinion columnist who was brought in by The Times in 2017 to add more conservative voices after President Donald Trump’s first election, despite describing herself as a “radical centrist.” She then resigned in 2020, saying she’d been “bull…
JUST IN: Conservative Journalist Chosen As the NEW Head of CBS News!
It appears like the legacy media is finally turning a new leaf. In a major shake-up over at CBS News, a prominent conservative journalist has just been chosen to lead the network. Bari Weiss, who founded The Free Press, will be named as the new Editor-in-Chief. Check it out: Bari Weiss to be named editor in chief of CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources https://t.co/8TPY1WjLXm pic.twitter.com/LUuFgHdEFE — New York Post (…
You Only Live Weiss
After David Ellison’s yearlong courtship, Free Press founder Bari Weiss will finally begin leading CBS News on Monday. But can an editor who rose on her center-right-ish criticism of the mainstream media find her way now that she’s once again a part of it?
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