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Getty Images Seeking: Business executive to help manage one of nation’s best-known news brands. Must enjoy long hours, fluid and fluid work schedule — and editorial chief with predilection for generating controversy.
Paramount Skydance has been on the hunt for a business executive who can work with Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, who is facing a restive staff and a hot public spotlight since ousting the senior leadership of “60 Minutes” in late May, along with three of its correspondents.
Four people familiar with some aspects of the discussions say they have been going on for weeks, and one of these people says Weiss has been involved with them. The new executive, if hired, would not likely enjoy any editorial or creative control greater than Weiss, two of these people say, which has been a turn off for some people who have met for discussions.
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Paramount and CBS News declined to make executives available for comment. Puck and Axios previously reported aspects of these talks.
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