P aramount has tasked former Trump nominee Kenneth Weinstein with addressing bias at CBS in the latest move to signal a more conservative direction for the storied news network.

Paramount Global named former Hudson Institute CEO Kenneth Weinstein to serve as ombudsman of CBS News, assigning someone who led a conservative think tank and worked outside the traditional world of journalism to monitor the news unit’s reporting and scrutinize it against claims of bias.

P aramount has named Kenneth R. Weinstein, former head of a conservative-leaning Washington think tank, to be ombudsman for CBS News, fulfilling a condition of winning the Trump administration's approval for an $8-billion merger.