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” (referring to the status quo at CBS News). Google’s AI-driven search changes are having a devastating impact on the digital publishing economy, thanks to the way Search now synthesizes information from web publishers to deliver that content directly on Google search results pages—eliminating the need for users to click on links and leave Google at all. The WBD board now has three competing bids on the table (none of which are binding) to weigh against the company’s own plan to split itself in half, one part of which encompasses streaming and studios and the other including linear TV networks like CNN.
Author: Andy Meek, Senior Contributor, Andy Meek, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/
Published at: 2025-11-23 22:50:08
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