Paramount Skydance Acquires The Free Press, Taps Bari Weiss as CBS News Editor-in-Chief
Paramount Skydance Acquires The Free Press, Taps Bari Weiss as CBS News Editor-in-Chief In a significant shake-up of the media landscape, the newly formed Paramount Skydance corporation has announced its acquisition of The Free Press, the online news and commentary platform co-founded by Bari Weiss. As part of the deal, Weiss will assume the role of editor-in-chief at CBS News. Weiss, who launched The Free Press in 2021 alongside Nellie Bowles and Suzy Weiss, positioned the publication as a heterodox…