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Bari Weiss’ fate is up in the air as CBS News parent Paramount Skydance prepares to finalize its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery next week, The Post has learned. Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison — who revealed on Friday that the name of the combined media giant will be Skydance — is mulling possible changes to Weiss’ role as CBS News editor-in-chief once the deal is completed,
The potential ownership of CBS News and CNN under one corporate owner has generated months of fear, anxiety and loathing at both networks, but the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery settlement tries to resolve some of the issues with the establishment of an editorial independence board.
Marcus W. Brauchli, a former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and executive editor of The Post, is co-founder and managing partner of North Base Media.
Paramount's settlement with 12 state attorneys general includes the creation of a five-person board charged with protecting CNN and CBS News from influence by their owners and shareholders. But how effective can it be when Paramount's own directors choose all five members?
Paramount Skydance and CNN chief Mark Thompson are in the “early stages” of discussions that could keep him as the leader of the news giant, according to a person familiar with the matter, a sign that the company is likely to keep CBS News and CNN apart initially as it navigates its purchase of Warner
Although Paramount was one of several companies to roll back their DEI initiative when Trump was re-elected, Survivor continues to operate by it. Host Jeff Probst recently noted that “nothing has changed” with how the reality competition series approaches diversity,