Paula Reid is anticipated to depart NCS, the place she has served because the community’s chief authorized affairs correspondent, in line with sources acquainted with her plans.
Reid’s exit plans come upfront of Paramount’s deliberate acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, which has already created consternation inside the NCS newsroom over the last word plans for his or her pending new proprietor.
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Status first reported on Reid’s plans to exit, coming as she confronted a contract renewal.
NCS declined to remark.
Reid joined NCS from CBS News in 2021 as senior authorized affairs correspondent, and was named chief authorized affairs correspondent in 2023.
At CBS News, Reid coated the White House and the Justice Department. Among different tales, she led the protection of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference within the 2016 presidential election.
Paramount CEO David Ellison has mentioned that he believes “in the independence that needs to be maintained” at NCS, however there’s appreciable uncertainty over what sorts of adjustments are within the works for the community and who will lead it. At CBS News, Ellison named Bari Weiss, the founding father of the Free Press, to function editor in chief, who has overhauled CBS Evening News and fired the highest management of 60 Minutes and three of its correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega and Scott Pelley.
The Paramount-WBD merger is anticipated to shut within the third quarter.
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