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CBS News staffers have been chattering following a flurry of reports that Bari Weiss will be taking a top position at the network.

"Everyone is sending the articles around. Waiting to see how it will change — or if it will," one CBS staffer told Fox News Digital .

Outlets like Puck News and the New York Post reported last Thursday that Paramount is set to announce that it has acquired Weiss' publication The Free Press for $150 million and that Paramount's new owner David Ellison will appoint Weiss to become the editor in chief of CBS News, where she will report directly to him — appearing to bypass CBS News President Tom Cibrowski, who currently reports to Paramount TV Media Chair George Cheeks.

"Everyone is waiting

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