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.

Weiss risked rankling her team on Monday when sh

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