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Olivia Nuzzi arrives for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2023. AFP via Getty Images The media business delivered no shortage of drama this week, from CBS News still navigating Bari Weiss’s attempted overhaul to Warner Bros. Discovery fielding multiple takeover bids. Google’s AI-driven search changes continue sending shockwaves through the digital publishing ecosystem — while the re-emergence of political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has made waves of a different sort, following the release of the first excerpts from her forthcoming memoir. Here’s a look at some of the people and players that drove media headlines over the past week. Bari Weiss is still shaping her vision for CBS News. The latest press coverage of Bari Weiss—hired by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison to revamp CBS News—casts the 41-year-old founder of The Free Press as a disruptor on a mission, with new profiles zeroing in on her vow to “blow this up” (referring to the status quo at CBS News). Profiles in Fortune and The Wall Street Journal detailed Weiss’s hunt for new anchor talent to pull CBS Evening News, the former home of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, out of its third-place rut. The expectation is that Weiss will reveal a more detailed blueprint for CBS News in the coming weeks, which leaves the network for now still grappling with its as-yet unsolved identity crisis. “These are really perilous times,” former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric said during public remarks this week about the state of affairs at her former employer. The Free Press founder Bari Weiss. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Sinclair acquires a stake in Scripps. In other media news, Sinclair Broadcast Group revealed this week that it’s taken an 8.2% stake in E.W. Scripps, a…

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