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Report: Paramount to Acquire The Free Press for $150M, Name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News
Paramount is acquiring The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as editor-in-chief to revamp its editorial direction amid declining ratings.
- Paramount is set to acquire The Free Press for $150 million and appoint Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News.
- Bari Weiss will report directly to Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison, bypassing CBS News President Tom Cibrowski.
- The acquisition of The Free Press and Weiss's appointment reflect Paramount's intention to modernize content and attract a broader audience, as stated by Ellison.
- Weiss, a former New York Times opinion writer, will manage CBS News' editorial direction but lacks TV experience.
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CBS News' new editor-in-chief is Trump's new friendly ally with a bigger platform
Paramount Skydance just announced a massive shakeup that’s going to impact how millions of people get their news, acquiring the digital media outlet The Free Press and naming its founder, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. This news, which broke on a Monday (October 6, 2025), is a huge deal because it’s signaling a pretty clear right-leaning ideological shift at one of American journalism’s oldest and most respected institutions. T…
David Ellison Purchases The Free Press for $150 Million, Appoints Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News - The Last Refuge
This is exactly as expected. Larry Ellison now controls TikTok while his son David Ellison now controls Paramount/Skydance which is CBS. To solidify the objective of TikTok, new algorithms will be implemented, while to solidify the objective of CBS, Bari Weiss is hired as Editor-in-Chief of news. [Paramount Announcement] The Trump administration assisted both the […]
CBS Buys the Free Press Website, Installs Founder Bari Weiss as CBS News Editor
NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount said Monday that it has bought the commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News. The announcement, while anticipated, is a bold move for the venerable television news network initiated by new corporate leader David Ellison. Weiss’ experience is in print […]
Paramount buys the Free Press, Bari Weiss takes over at CBS News
The CBS Building in New York City. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons, Graphic by The Desk) Key Points: Former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss has been named editor-in-chief of CBS News as Paramount acquires her digital news outlet The Free Press for $150 million. Weiss will lead CBS News and continue running The Free Press as an independent brand under Paramount. Paramount CEO David Ellison says Weiss will drive a “balanced, fact-based” transfor…
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