Paramount Has Been in Search for Business Executive to Help Bari Weiss at CBS News

Bari Weiss y la sombra que se cierne sobre la fusión de Paramount y Warner Bros.

Análisis de Brian Stelter, CNN ¿Las malas noticias para CBS News se traducen en malas noticias para la adquisición de CNN por parte de Paramount y el resto de Warner Bros. Discovery? No directamente. Pero las heridas autoinfligidas en CBS News pueden plantear una pregunta diferente para el CEO de Paramount, David Ellison: ¿se ha convertido Bari Weiss en una distracción demasiado grande? Los despidos en “60 Minutes” y ahora la entrevista de Scott…

Bari Weiss on verge of major promotion for 'fantastic job' bosses think she's doing at CBS

Bari Weiss could be taking over the editorial leadership of another news network.Paramount has begun preliminary conversations with several top media executives about a business-side counterpart to Weiss, the CBS News editor-in-chief, as the company awaits regulatory approval of its proposed merger ...

Paramount Has Been in Search for Business Executive to Help Bari Weiss at CBS News

Paramount Seeks Business Executive to Help Bari Weiss at CBS News

Paramount is still looking for help for Bari Weiss, if anyone is interested

A few weeks ago, Puck reported that Paramount was rethinking the amount of control it had given Bari Weiss over CBS News. At that time, Paramount was quick to deny these reports, but they don’t seem to be denying them anymore. (What might have happened at CBS News since May 20?) Variety reports this morning that Paramount Skydance is searching for a “business executive” to aid Weiss, who is losing goodwill with her staff by the day, after all th…

Bari Weiss set to run CNN after Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Bari Weiss would be given the keys to CNN if the Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Skydance merger goes through, according to a report. Axios reports that the 42-year-old Weiss, who has spent the past year implementing radical changes at CBS News as editor-in-chief, is earmarked to run CNN’s editorial side while multiple candidates are up to run the business side. Current CNN CEO Mark Thompson, NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde, former…

Paramount Seeks Biz Counterpart For Weiss At CBS News

Paramount has held preliminary conversations with several candidates for a business-side counterpart to CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, according to two sources familiar with the network's inner workings. The search implies that if Paramount Skydance's deal with Warner Bros. Discovery goes through, Weiss would oversee all news editorial across both CBS News and CNN. Her potential counterpart would manage business operations across both comp…