Paramount Skydance has made it official: Bari Weiss is taking over CBS News. The company is acquiring her media startup, The Free Press, for a reported $150 million and naming her editor-in-chief, reporting directly to Paramount CEO David Ellison. The deal marks a sharp turn for the legacy network — and an ascent for Weiss, who built her reputation as a polarizing opinion writer before launching The Free Press in 2021, where a recent essay hailed the AI “actress” Tilly Norwood as “one of your better chances” to see a virgin on-screen. OK!

In her first note to CBS staff, Weiss outlined the core principles she intends to champion, among them reporting “on the world as it actually is,” explaining complex issues plainly, and presenting a diversity of viewpoints so audiences can weigh the stro

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