Paula Reid to Exit CNN as Paramount Merger Looms and Weiss Leadership Debates Emerge

CNN’s Paula Reid is set to leave the network this summer as Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery moves forward, fueling uncertainty about CNN’s future editorial independence under CBS News chief Bari Weiss; Weiss’s controversial tenure has already sparked staff upheaval, while Paramount and regulators weigh the deal’s implications.