Katie Couric criticized CBS News’ corporate owner Paramount Skydance last week — opining that its move to put the division under the editorial control of Bari Weiss is “compromising independent journalism.”

Couric, the former anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” warned during a gala in New York last week that “the whole setup with the Ellisons bringing her in and buying the Free Press is compromising independent journalism.”

Her remarks, first reported by the Status newsletter , were a reaction to a question from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd about the deal engineered by Paramount CEO David Ellison, who folded Weiss’ Free Press newsletter into the company and installed her atop CBS News’ editorial operation.

Last month, The Post was the first to reveal that Weiss would be report

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