CBS’s parent company, Paramount, has purchased Bari Weiss’s media outlet The Free Press, and is installing Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News.
“As of today, I am editor-in-chief of CBS News, working with new colleagues on the programs that have impacted American culture for generations—shows like 60 Minutes and Sunday Morning—and shaping how millions of Americans read, listen, watch, and, most importantly, understand the news in the 21st century,” Weiss said in an Oct. 6 announcement of the deal.
Weiss, 41, started The Free Press in 2021, after resigning as op-ed writer for The New York Times after facing what she described as bullying from colleagues and a lack of support from management….