CBS’s brand new MAGA-curious boss Bari Weiss opened her tenure with a thinly veiled critique of the newsroom she’s inheriting.
Paramount Skydance announced on Monday that it had acquired The Free Press, the digital media outlet Weiss—who calls herself a centrist—founded in 2021 with her wife, journalist Nellie Bowles, and her sister, Suzy Weiss. It grew from a Substack newsletter often critical of progressive orthodoxy, cancel culture, and identity politics to a newsroom of 50 employees working against what Weiss sees as legacy media’s “woke” orthodoxy.
The $150 million cash-and-stock deal places Weiss, 41, at the top of one of America’s most storied news divisions, overseeing hundreds of producers, anchors and reporters around the globe.
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