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He is installing the outspoken journalist as editor in chief of CBS News and empowering her to set the storied news organization’s editorial vision.

Paramount said Weiss will “shape editorial policies, champion core values across platforms and lead innovation in how the organization reports and delivers the news.”

While many remember it for being predicated upon shaky documents, it was also incredibly prophetic about the future media landscape: One that’s rapidly consumed by corporate interests, political pressure and the erosion of editorial independence.

There to cover those storylines on behalf of the BBC - which had full editorial control - was director John Alexander, born only a few miles away in the County Durham town of Peterlee.

After some staffers complained, Dokoupil was admonished by CBS News leadership on an editorial call that the Free Press posted online.