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Shari Redstone Reveals She Is Undergoing Treatment For Thyroid Cancer
Shari Redstone, who for months has been leading the charge to merge Paramount with Skydance has, at the same time, been fighting another battle with thyroid cancer.
Shari Redstone, who for months has been leading the charge to merge Paramount Global with David Ellison’s Skydance Media has, at the same time, been fighting a more personal battle with thyroid cancer. Failing to close the merger will be a major setback for Redstone, who has spent the past decade taking the reins of CBS and Viacom and finally melding them together after internal opposition. In steering Paramount, Redstone has taken after her father in some hands-on respects, publicly backing CBS anchor Tony Dokupil’s interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, which a number of staffers felt was unduly harsh on the author during a discussion of his visit to Palestine.
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