{"id":2129764,"date":"2025-11-02T01:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129764"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:57:29","slug":"wga-urges-cbs-news-staffers-to-not-respond-to-bari-weiss-info-seeking-memo-until-company-provides-details-on-purpose-of-her-email-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wga-urges-cbs-news-staffers-to-not-respond-to-bari-weiss-info-seeking-memo-until-company-provides-details-on-purpose-of-her-email-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"WGA Urges CBS News Staffers to Not Respond to Bari Weiss Info-Seeking Memo Until Company Provides Details on Purpose of Her Email (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The Writers Guild of America told union employees it represents at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0011682\/\">CBS News<\/a> to not respond to an email requesting information sent to staff by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9474175\/\">Bari Weiss<\/a> \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0979866\/\">The Free Press<\/a> founder who this week was appointed CBS News\u2019 editor in chief \u2014 until <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a> provides more details on what the purpose of her missive is, including whether their replies could serve as \u201ca basis for discipline, discharge, or layoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Free Press, launched by the conservative-leaning <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1970916\/\">Weiss<\/a> (who has called herself a \u201cradical centrist\u201d) in 2021, was acquired this week by Paramount Skydance, parent of CBS. As part of the deal, reported to be worth $150 million, Weiss has oversight of CBS News editorial operations.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss told CBS News staffers in a memo Friday morning that she was eager \u201cto understand how you spend your working hours \u2014 and ideally, what you\u2019ve made (or are making) that you are most proud of.\u201d She&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writers Guild of America told union employees it represents at CBS News to not respond to an email requesting information sent to staff by Bari Weiss \u2014 The Free Press founder who this week was appointed CBS News\u2019 editor in chief \u2014 until CBS provides more details on what the purpose of her missive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2129764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WGA-Urges-CBS-News-Staffers-to-Not-Respond-to-Bari.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129766,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129764\/revisions\/2129766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}