Former CBS News boss David Rhodes is reportedly in talks to retake his old throne at the Tiffany Network if owner Paramount’s merger with Skydance is finally approved.
Rhodes, who served as president of CBS News from 2011 to 2019 and spent a decade before that at Fox News, is currently executive chairman of Sky News in the UK.
His possible return back across the pond, reported by Puck News, comes amid speculation that Skydance CEO David Ellison has been wooing Bari Weiss, co-founder of news site Free Press, to join the struggling network.
The two attended the high-powered “summer camp for billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho, earlier this month, where Ellison supposedly held early-stage talks with Weiss about acquiring the Free Press, according to the New York Times.
David Rhodes currently serves as executive chairman of Sky News Group. Courtesy of Sky News
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