"Weiss is a conservative journalist known for her criticism of so-called cancel culture and all things "woke", gender-critical views which have led her to offer a platform to trans exclusionary figures such as JK Rowling. She has said she "happily plead[s] guilty as charged" to the label of "Zionist fanatic". She founded The Free Press alongside her wife, tech journalist Nellie Bowles, in 2021 as a newsletter under the name Common Sense which was published on Substack."
""I am confident her entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision will invigorate CBS News. "This move is part of Paramount's bigger vision to modernise content and the way it connects, directly and passionately, to audiences around the world. "This is an important initiative for our company and Bari will report directly to me, leading the work of The Free Press and collaborating with our CBS News team in the pursuit of making it the most-trusted name in news."
Paramount acquired The Free Press in a deal reportedly worth $150 million (about £112 million) and named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss is a conservative journalist known for criticizing cancel culture and expressing gender-critical views; she has given platforms to trans exclusionary figures and described herself as "happily plead[s] guilty as charged" to the label of "Zionist fanatic". The Free Press began as a 2021 Substack newsletter called Common Sense, later rebranded, and amassed an estimated 1.5 million subscribers. Paramount says the move aims to modernise content and position CBS as balanced, fact-based news.
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