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Trump to sit with CBS News in first interview after lawsuit, Semafor reports

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will sit down with CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell for an interview on Friday afternoon, the first with the network after his lawsuit against it, Semafor reported. Paramount in July agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump over his claim that CBS deceptively edited a "60 Minutes" interview with his Democratic presidential opponent Kamala Harris last year. CBS-parent Paramount Skydance named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News earlier this month, as part of a deal to acquire the center-right online news outlet she founded, the Free Press. CBS News and the White House did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on the report. CBS also appointed a new ombudsman who had previously run the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. David Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, took over the CBS network and other Paramount properties earlier this year when his company Skydance Media merged with Paramount Global in an $8.4 billion deal. Semafor had reported earlier this month that the White House was in talks with CBS News program "60 Minutes" about conducting an interview with Trump. (Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Alan Barona)

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