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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Justin Baragona

CBS News head of standards quits just a week after Bari Weiss is named editor-in-chief

Claudia Milne, CBS News’ head of standards since 2021, announced Thursday that she was leaving the network, marking the first senior news executive to depart since The Free Press founder Bari Weiss was named the newsroom’s editor-in-chief.

Milne’s departure also comes just weeks after the network named former Trump appointee and conservative think tank leader Kenneth Weinstein as an ombudsman dedicated to rooting out “complaints of bias” at CBS News, one of several moves by Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison that have sparked criticism within the network and among media critics.

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