Bari Weiss joins CBS News as editor -in -chief, Paramount Buys Free Press

Bari Weiss announced on Monday that she is the editor -in -chief of CBS News and its outlets, The Free Press joins Paramount.

“We are a news organization, so I will reach that: this morning, Free Press joins Paramount”.

“This step is a testimony on many things: the free press team; vision of the new Paramount leaders; the luck of an independent media company at the right moment; and the courage of my colleagues to leave old worlds to build a new one,” I continued. “But, above all, it is a testimony to you, our subscribers.”

Weiss, from He resigned from the famous New York Times In 2020, after detailing it in detail by her colleagues, she continued to launch the “Logic” newsletter in 2021 before re -named it as a free press and expanded it to a full media company in 2022. It is now rumored in Weiss and the Free Press Office.

The purchase price for Free Press was $ 150 million in cash and prominent shares, according to reports.

Weiss noticed that the free press aims to “marry the quality of the ancient world to the freedom of the new”, and that its goal is to “search for the truth and tell it clearly” while the readers “like adults who are able to make their own choices.”

“Many people told us that this is no longer possible. The hypothesis of a media company based on confidence instead of partisanship was, at best, the remains of the past – and in the worst case, the imagination was not.” I proved that they were wrong. It has proven that there is a market for sincere journalism. He gave us a mandate to follow this task from a larger platform. “

Weiss said that she will continue the leadership of Free Press as CEO and editor -in -chief, but she has more on her plate.

“As of today, I am the editor-in-chief of CBS News, where I work with new colleagues on the programs that affected American culture for generations-appear like” 60 minutes “and” Sunday morning “-and formed how millions of Americans read, listen, watch, and most importantly, to understand the news in the twenty-first century.”

Weiss joins CBS at a time of severe disorders in the industry and the network itself, which survived the differences about “60 minutes” and the sudden cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.

Weiss, who built its brand about the idea that the old outlets that suffer from liberal collective thinking are certainly shaking things. The liberals were angry at the idea of ​​Weiss to this strong position in CBS News. It has been largely renounced through the cultural left of the DEI defy reports, gender ideology and media accounts against Israel in its ongoing war with Hamas.

This is a developing story, more in the future.