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.

The Free Press brand emphasizes a sharply “contrarian point of view on politics and culture,” said The Wall Street Journal . Weiss, who started the publication after leaving The New York Times, saying that progressive staffers had bullied her for her views, will likely bring that same sensibility to CBS. The network is aiming at “that 70% of the audience that would really define themselves at center-left to center-right,” said Paramount CEO David Ellison. For her part, Weiss said she wants to create news that “doesn’t

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