Paramount is preparing to shell out as much as $200 million for Bari Weiss’ buzzy media venture, The Free Press — and hand her the keys to help steer CBS News — in a move that’s rattling an already shaken news division still reeling from the $8 billion Skydance-Paramount mega-merger.

Weiss, the former New York Times opinion page editor who launched The Free Press in 2022, is reportedly in line for a senior editorial role at CBS News as part of a deal that would fold her outlet into the new Paramount, according to the Puck newsletter.

Paramount declined to comment, but Puck media reporter Dylan Byers pegged the potential purchase price between $100 million and $200 million, with sources saying the talks are in their final stages. 3

The deal comes on the heels of last month’s blo

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