CBS News Drama, WBD Bids, And Olivia Nuzzi Returns
com. Discovery fielding multiple takeover bids. Here’s a look at some of the people and players that drove media headlines over the past week. Bari Weiss is still shaping her vision for CBS News. The latest press coverage of Bari Weiss-hired by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to revamp CBS News-casts the 41-year-old founder of The Free Press as a disruptor on a mission, with new profiles zeroing in on her vow to “blow this up” Profiles The expectation is that Weiss will reveal a more detailed blueprint for CBS News in the coming weeks, which leaves the network for now still grappling with its as-yet unsolved identity crisis. “These are really perilous times,” former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric said during public remarks this week about the state of affairs at her former employer. The Free Press founder Bari Weiss. In other media news, Sinclair Broadcast Group revealed this week that it’s taken an 8. 2% stake in E. W. Scripps, a.