NEW YORK POST
‘Woke’ CBS News standards chief is Bari Weiss’ ‘first scalp,’ as new boss remakes network
Alexandra Steigrad
October 16, 2025

The head of CBS News’ standards and practices unit — who presided over some of the network’s recent controversial, woke reporting — is out as new boss Bari Weiss looks to bring more balance to the left-leaning network. Claudia Milne, who ran the division responsible for the moral, ethical and legal implications of CBS programming, is the first senior executive to leave the network since Weiss arrived as editor in chief earlier this month…Another surprising moment in which Milne played a part was last year’s criticism of “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil after he grilled author Ta-Nehisi Coates over his one-sided polemic against Israel, which the writer compared to an “apartheid” state. READ MORE

FOX NEWS Bari Weiss reportedly ‘stunned’ ’60 Minutes’ crew by asking why the country thinks they’re ‘biased’: report. CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss allegedly “stunned” the staff behind CBS’ “60 Minutes” by asking them why they believed people considered them biased, a new report claimed Sunday. The New York Times reported about a meeting between Weiss and the staff on Tuesday ahead of an upcoming episode of the news program…Weiss reportedly has taken a more hands-on approach to leadership by helping to personally book network guests herself, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Middle East policy advisors Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

DETROIT NEWS CNN’s future at stake as owner Warner Bros. Discovery seeks sale Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO, announced that it’s open to a sale, leaving its news and streaming subsidiaries’ futures uncertain. David Ellison, whose company Skydance recently took over Paramount, has reportedly expressed interest in bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery. Ellison recently spent $150 million to buy Bari Weiss’s website, the Free Press, and named the conservative writer editor in chief of CBS News. An acquisition would place CNN and CBS, two legacy news brands, under the same roof.