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“I’m a newspaper woman without a newspaper,” Bari Weiss said four years ago on the first episode of her podcast, Honestly.

Weiss still does not have a newspaper. But she was just handed the sterling silver keys to the Tiffany network.

On Monday, Weiss was named the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. The network’s owner, Paramount, also announced the acquisition of her start-up, The Free Press , for a price said to be about $US150 million ($226 million) million in cash and stock.

In its nearly 100 years, CBS has not seen a leader quite like Weiss. Neither has the media industry. Weiss, 41, has ascended the mountain of journalism on a slingshot. In 2020, she publicly resigned as an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times to start a newsletter on Substack. Today, she has one of