Paramount on Monday announced it is hiring Bari Weiss to serve as editor in chief of CBS News and is purchasing her start up media company The Free Press for a reported $150 million.

The move, which had been buzzed about in media and political circles for weeks, places Weiss at one of the top perches in the broadcast news business and will raise immediate questions about whether CBS's coverage will move to the right.

A controversial figure in media and an outspoken critic of the mainstream press, Weiss founded the Free Press after leaving the New York Times as an........

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