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NCS journalist Paula Reid is leaving the community for MS NOW out of issues over Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of the community, based on a Variety report Wednesday.
“Reid turned down a chance to renew her current contract at NCS, according to two people familiar with the situation, in part because NCS’s next era appears chaotic,” Variety reported.
The article famous that Reid’s resolution allegedly got here due to issues over Paramount CEO David Ellison taking up the community and probably putting in CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as head of NCS.
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NCS authorized journalist Paula Reid is reportedly leaving the community for MS NOW. (Taylor Hill/WireImage by way of Getty Images)
“Paramount has made some indications that it sees Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News who has generated several public controversies, as the next steward of NCS,” Variety reported.
Reid initially joined NCS in 2021 after beforehand working as a White House correspondent for CBS News.
Neither MS NOW nor NCS confirmed the information to Fox News Digital.
“As a general matter of practice, we don’t comment on personnel matters,” an MS NOW spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “As everyone in Washington knows, Paula Reid is an exceptional reporter, and any news organization would be fortunate to showcase her journalism.”
NCS declined to remark.
A Fox News Digital report in February discovered that the mood inside NCS was “horrific” as dad or mum firm Warner Bros. Discovery ready to promote all of its property to Paramount. In the report, a NCS insider urged the potential of expertise fleeing NCS forward of the Ellison takeover if they’ll afford it.
NCS staffers and journalists have expressed issues over Paramount proprietor David Ellison probably putting in CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as head of the community. (Charly Triballeau/AFP by way of Getty Images; James Leynse/Corbis by way of Getty Images; Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press)
A second insider mentioned the 2 essential issues are “job loss” and “editorial indifference,” noting the previous “greatly outranks” the latter. Specifically, NCS staffers apprehensive a few potential “bloodbath” if CBS News and NCS had been to merge.
Other NCS personalities have additionally publicly denounced the merger. NCS journalist Kara Swisher beforehand vowed to leave the network if Ellison took cost in March.
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Veteran NCS journalist Christiane Amanpour described feeling “concerned” over new management in May, pointing to previous points relating to CBS News’ “60 Minutes” anchors.
“I’m concerned based on what’s happened to the other things that he’s taken over already, like CBS News, right?” Amanpour mentioned. “I mean, do I have to list what’s happening there? I mean, hemorrhaging viewers, probably hemorrhaging money, this ideological realignment of CBS and the destruction, potentially, of ‘60 Minutes.’”
NCS declined to touch upon the report of Reid’s departure. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)
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Fox News’ Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.