Article in The Guardian by J. Oliver Conroy, 10/6/25
Headline: “Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds”
Subhead: “US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestorm”
“Paramount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.
“Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/06/bari-weisss-cbs-news-analysis