Paramount Skydance to acquire Bari Weiss-founded Free Press
CNBC·2025-10-06 13:26
CBS News studio at Times Square in Manhattan, New York, United States of America, on July 6th, 2024.Paramount Skydance said Monday it has agreed to acquire online publication The Free Press, naming its co-founder and CEO, Bari Weiss, as CBS News' editor-in-chief.Paramount Skydance reportedly paid $150 million for The Free Press. The digital upstart publication, which was launched by Weiss in 2021, will be joined with CBS News. Paramount said Monday The Free Press has 1.5 million subscribers, more than 170,0 ...