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Paramount Skydance said Monday it has agreed to acquire online publication The Free Press, naming its co-founder and CEO, Bari Weiss, as CBS News' editor-in-chief.

The digital upstart publication, which was launched by Weiss in 2021, will be joined with CBS News. Paramount said Monday The Free Press has 1.5 million subscribers, more than 170,000 of which are paid subscriptions.

Weiss founded The Free Press after resigning from The New York Times' opinion desk in 2020.

"Weiss will shape editorial priorities, champion core values across platforms, and lead innovation in how the organization reports and delivers the news," Paramount said in a news release.

The acquisition, which Paramount Skydance reported

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