Paramount Appoints Kenneth Weinstein as CBS News Ombudsman to Monitor Bias

The appointment will meet the requirement set by the Federal Communications Commission for approval of Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.

Paramount Global and Skydance logos, in this illustration. Dado Ruvic/Reuters

Paramount has appointed Kenneth Weinstein as the ombudsman for CBS News to monitor bias complaints, the company said on Sept. 8.

Weinstein is the former CEO and president of the Hudson Institute, and now serves as the think tank’s Japan chair. He was President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Japan during his first term (but was never confirmed).