CBS News is expected to obtain a significant reshuffle in the coming days, the parent company Paramount preparing to acquire the free press, the digital publication founded by former New York Times The Chronicler Bari Weiss.
Weiss is expected to be appointed editor -in -chief of CBS News and will probably be directly under the CEO of Paramount, David Ellison, by bypassing the existing organizational structure of CBS. The agreement for the Free Press would have been estimated at around $ 150 million, although it is not clear to what extent is in cash against actions, and if that includes a potential gain.
Talks between Ellison and Weiss have been underway for months, the Skydance tycoon intrigued by Weiss’s approach to the news and at the digital level. She does not have much experience in the side of television production of the information industry, and many specificities around what she will do at CBS is not quite clear, leaving the staff to the network left for themselves.
The interest in Weiss also aroused the praise of the former owner of Paramount, Shari Redstone, who expressed his approval for the potential agreement.
“I know there was a question of Bari, and I think she would be a good voice, so I hope,” said the former world president of Paramount last month. “I will not enter into it from the point of view of the company, but I think it is a voice that would bring a different perspective. And then I think that in the end, you must give credit to your audience to be intelligent enough to hear different points of view and be able to reduce the facts. ”
