CBS News to announce hiring of VERY anti-woke new editor-in-chief

Anti-woke former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss will be announced as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News on Monday.

The network – which is trying to rebuild its reputation after losing a multimillion dollar lawsuit to Donald Trump – will also acquire her publication, The Free Press, for around $150million.

Weiss will report directly to Skydance Paramount CEO David Ellison, whose company Skydance recently merged with CBS’ owners at Paramount.

Tom Cibrowski will remain CBS News’ president but Weiss will not have to report to him.

Weiss has been ‘informally consulting’ CBS for ‘a while,’ a source previously told The Daily Mail.

For the time being, Weiss’ The Free Press will remain separate from CBS News itself while she takes the reins.

The talks regarding positions and control remain ‘in flux and could change,’ a source told The New York Post.

Anti-woke former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss will be announced as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News on Monday

Weiss will report directly to Skydance Paramount CEO David Ellison, whose company Skydance recently merged with CBS’ owners at Paramount

Weiss, 41, who quit the New York Times in 2020 over its ‘illiberal environment,’ counts more than 1.25million subscribers to The Free Press, Axios reported.

Her expected hiring by new Paramount Skydance CEO Ellison, the son of billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison, is set to make waves within the CBS newsroom after a tumultuous year.

In October, Donald Trump sued the network over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that he claimed was deceptively edited.

In the spring, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Bill Owens and CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon both resigned over concerns with the company’s direction.

Paramount ultimately agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle the lawsuit.

That settlement paved the way for the administration’s approval of an $8billion merger between Skydance Media and Paramount last month.

Staff at CBS News are now fretting over the expected arrival of Weiss, who has regularly criticized the state of legacy media and left-leaning views.

‘There’s real fear in the building right now,’ our source said.

Tom Cibrowski (pictured left)will remain CBS News’ president but Weiss will not have to report to him

Weiss has been ‘informally consulting’ CBS for ‘a while,’ a source previously

‘Veteran reporters who’ve been here for decades are whispering about whether they’ll still have a job by the end of the year.’

A source told The Wrap that Paramount is expecting resignations once Weiss is hired.

‘Staff morale is at an all-time low. People are scared, plain and simple,’ our source added. ‘Everyone knows a news boss mean big changes, and no one feels secure.’

Weiss has surfaced a fierce critic of legacy media after leaving the Times in 2020.

Ellison, meanwhile, is the 42-year-old son of Larry Ellison, a long-time Republican donor worth roughly $300billion.

He is an actor turned producer with no background in news, but is bolstered by his deputy, former NBCUniversal exec Jeff Shell