The network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite is getting a new look. Paramount announced on Monday that Bari Weiss — founder of The Free Press, an online publication known mostly for anti-woke, pro-Israel opinionating — will be the new editor in chief of CBS News.

My hero was CBS newsman Walter Cronkite. In 2004 I sat down with Cronkite for a one-on-one interview when he was honored by Portland State University.

CBS News is set for a major shake-up as Bari Weiss joins as editor in chief, following Paramount’s $150 million acquisition of her media startup, the Free Press.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -When Bari Weiss walks into CBS News as editor-in-chief, she'll bring something the former home of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite has not seen in its nearly century-long history: a leader whose career has been built on challenging journalism’s most august institutions.

It is always an honor to be in his presence, and it's a great pleasure to have him as a special guest here in New York tonight, the legendary anchor of the "CBS Evening News," the author of numerous books -- got another one even coming soon -- Walter Cronkite, who recently marked -- it's the 20th anniversary of your stepping down.

In a move that is expected to shake up the broadcast news landscape, CBS’s owner, Paramount, said on Monday that it was buying The Free Press, an upstart digital news site founded just four years ago, and appointing Ms. Weiss, one of its founders, as the editor in chief of CBS News.

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Paramount has named journalist Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press, as CBS News’ new editor-in-chief. Weiss, formerly of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Tablet, built her platform to 1.

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