Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News under Free Press-Paramount deal
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https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/free-press-founder-bari- weiss-named-editor-cbs-news-after-deal-with-paramount-2025-10-06/ LOS ANGELES, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O), opens new tab CEO David Ellison has named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, as part of a deal to acquire the online news site she founded, The Free Press. The companies did not disclose the deal value in Monday's announcement. A source familiar with the matter said it was for $150 million. In an essay announcing the deal Monday, Weiss, 41, said the deal provides "a chance to help reshape a storied media organization—to help guide CBS News into a future that honors those great values that underpin The Free Press and the best of American journalism." The announcement capped months of talks between Ellison and Weiss. The newly minted media baron first floated the idea at July's Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, a frequent staging ground for major media mergers, according to media reports. Weiss resigned as an opinion writer for the New York Times in July 2020, in a 1,500-word open letter, opens new tab in which she described being the subject of "constant bullying" by colleagues who disagreed with her views. -- November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look forward to America being great again. We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended. Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much. Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump. Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer liberal democrat donors.