David Ellison is tackling the mountain-sized challenge of transforming Paramount Skydance from a shrinking legacy media company into a Hollywood powerhouse. The Paramount CEO is starting to unveil his long-awaited game plan: catch up to Netflix's tech, assemble a crew of top-tier executives, and rethink its news business. That goal — of creating a "next-generation" media company, in Ellison's words — is all before the planned mega-merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. These steps show how the