Paramount Skydance just announced a massive shakeup that’s going to impact how millions of people get their news, acquiring the digital media outlet The Free Press and naming its founder, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. This news, which broke on a Monday (October 6, 2025), is a huge deal because it’s signaling a pretty clear right-leaning ideological shift at one of American journalism’s oldest and most respected institutions.
The company’s Chairman and CEO, David Ellison, the son of the billionaire, Trump-supporting Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, has previously said they “don’t intend to politicize” CBS. The moves they’ve made recently say otherwise. Not only did they buy The Free Press for a reported $150 million in cash and stock, but they also hired a “Trump-supporting, conservative think tank veteran” last month to serve as CBS News’ new “bias monitor.”
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