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Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers October 31, 2025
Bari Weiss walked into CBS News guns ablazin’, booking guests and shooting for the moon with on-air talent, most of whom are locked in multiyear contracts. Will her inexperience in TV be a real hindrance, or is it just what the sleepy Tiffany network needs?
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers October 29, 2025
Bari’s takeover of CBS News, and her direct line to David Ellison, is sending a clear message: This is Bari’s CBS now, layoffs and all. The big question is what talent she’ll get to join her. Anderson Cooper will be her first test.
Sarah Longwell
Dylan Byers October 24, 2025
Since the early days of Trump 1.0, The Bulwark has evolved into a hysteria-free, self-sustaining home planet for conservatives-in-exile, where the ethos, according to publisher Sarah Longwell, holds that democracy cannot be saved “from behind a paywall.” Now, she’s contemplating a Free Press-level exit, too.
Makan Delrahim
Dylan Byers October 22, 2025
Now that David Zaslav has finally admitted Warner Bros. Discovery is for sale, the Ellisons will lean on Paramount’s newly recruited chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, to potentially articulate their antitrust talking points.


Mark Thompson CNN
Dylan Byers October 17, 2025
The imminent launch of Mark Thompson’s “All Access” streaming service recalls all the familiar questions that plagued CNN+: Can subscriptions save CNN from its post-linear malaise? Does anyone really want this? And is it all too little, too late?
Gerry Cardinale
Dylan Byers October 15, 2025
Besides chipping in $2 billion for Skydance’s Paramount takeover, RedBird Capital’s Gerry Cardinale is preparing to take over The Telegraph and shuffling deck chairs among London’s newspaper ranks.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers October 10, 2025
With the week’s short-order wrangling of two former secretaries of State, Bari Weiss is already proving she can get things done at CBS News. But her management of layoffs and resurrecting the ‘Evening News’ will be the next tests in her very new assignment.
Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers October 8, 2025
The overwrought media reaction to Weiss’s first days at CBS News would seem to validate the Ellison thesis for putting her in charge. But there’s plenty of cautious optimism inside the newsroom, too. “Having a new force come in isn’t the worst thing,” said one source. “Anyone who is acting like CBS News internally is aghast is not capturing the actual mood.”


Bari Weiss
Dylan Byers October 3, 2025
After David Ellison’s yearlong courtship, Free Press founder Bari Weiss will finally begin leading CBS News on Monday. But can an editor who rose on her center-right-ish criticism of the mainstream media find her way now that she’s once again a part of it?
david ellison
Dylan Byers October 1, 2025
David Ellison is evangelizing superior tech—Oracle-powered, naturally—as a way to transform his newly acquired Paramount into a 21st century world-beater with a better product and next-gen algorithms. Easier said than done…
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