Overview
- Skydance CEO David Ellison and journalist Bari Weiss have opened nonbinding discussions over selling The Free Press
- Both parties are slated to meet at Allen & Company’s Sun Valley summit where leading media transactions often materialize
- Ellison’s proposals reportedly span a variety of collaboration options, including Weiss advising on CBS News editorial direction
- The Free Press has grown to more than 1.5 million subscribers since its 2022 launch by Weiss, Nellie Bowles and Suzy Weiss
- The talks follow CBS’s parent settling President Trump’s lawsuit in early July, easing a key obstacle to Skydance’s Paramount merger