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The Big Cibrowski

David Ellison’s search for the right executive to help Bari Weiss run her two-headed CNN–CBS News monster might require a unicorn—someone with solid television news experience, a pliable journalistic backbone, and the willingness to play the loyal number two. In other words, he needs a supersized Tom Cibrowski.

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Tom Cibrowski
Tom Cibrowski, the president and executive editor of CBS News. Photo: Courtesy of Paramount
Dylan Byers
June 17, 2026

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Earlier this week, Tom Cibrowski, the president and executive editor of CBS News and unwitting Sancho Panza of the network’s Bari Weiss era, found himself in a delegation of Paramount technical staff on a tour of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Techwood Campus—the 30-acre production complex in Midtown Atlanta that serves, among other things, as the global headquarters for CNN. Days earlier, Tom also joined this team on a tour of the network’s true executive headquarters at Hudson Yards, about a mile and a half down 10th Avenue from the CBS Broadcast Center.

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