Bari Weiss is now CBS News editor-in-chief after Paramount acquires The Free Press

from The Stone Builders Rejected - We Are The Chief Cornerstone. · host michael kaswatuka

Paramount acquired Bari Weiss’s The Free Press for about $150 million; Weiss will become CBS News editor-in-chief while remaining CEO and editor of The Free Press, which will operate as an independent unit inside Paramount.Weiss will set editorial priorities, champion core values across platforms, and lead innovation at CBS News, reporting directly to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, who aims to position CBS as a balanced, fact-based news home.The acquisition is unconventional—The Free Press is a digital magazine known for anti‑woke and pro‑Israel opinion—and the integration plan has unsettled some CBS journalists.

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