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On Thursday morning, CBS News staffers opened their inboxes to find a surprise message with major news. Claudia Milne, the veteran journalist who has led CBS News’ standards and practices division since 2021, was announcing her departure from the network. In her note to colleagues, Milne called it a “privilege” to serve in the role, writing that she had “watched with awe and pride at the care and attention you all take to tell your stories, uphold the values of CBS News, and show the audience our world.”
"We live in complicated times. For our company, for our industry and for our country," Milne wrote, as first reported by Variety's Brian Steinberg. "And it’s times like this that what we do matters most."
That, however, was as close as Milne came to acknowledging the elephant in the room. Behind the scenes, Status has learned, she had…
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CNN’s Second Streamer: Here we go again! CNN on Thursday announced that it will officially launch its second attempt at a standalone streamer on October 28, confirming our previous reporting that the Mark Thompson-led organization was targeting this month for its release. The subscription product, which comes more than three years after Warner Bros. Discovery shuttered CNN+ in its infancy, is set to..
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