Bari Weiss would be given the keys to CNN if the Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Skydance merger goes through, according to a report. Axios reports that the 42-year-old Weiss, who has spent the past year implementing radical changes at CBS News as editor-in-chief,

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In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.