{"id":116390,"date":"2025-11-03T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116390\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:50:08","slug":"cbs-news-talent-chief-laurie-orlando-is-latest-executive-to-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116390\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News Talent Chief Laurie Orlando is Latest Executive to Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLaurie Orlando<\/a>, who has supervised talent recruitment and strategy at CBS News<\/a> for nearly a decade, is leaving the Paramount Skydance operation \u2014 the latest of the news division\u2019s senior executives to exit as the parent company overhauls its operations under an iconoclastic new editor in chief.<\/p>\n

\n\tOrlando sent a note to staffers and acquaintances Monday, according to three people familiar with the matter, saying that \u201cI have decided to retire from this work I love so much and the place that has always felt like home.\u201d Her last day is expected to be November 7. A CBS News spokesperson confirmed Orlando\u2019s departure. <\/p>\n

\n\tOrlando\u2019s announcement follows the exit earlier this month of Claudia Milne<\/a>, who had overseen standards and practices at CBS News. The news division has now lost two senior executives since Paramount installed Bari Weiss<\/a>, a digital entrepreneur who founded the conservative opinion site The Free Press, as editor in chief and the naming of a former Trump adviser as an ombudsman placed the news division under intense scrutiny.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was not immediately clear who might take on Orlando\u2019s duties, but CBS has a vice president of talent, Angela Hunter, who reported to Orlando, and remains on staff. It is also not clear that Orlando left because of Weiss\u2019 arrival. Paramount has launched a new five-days-a-week in-the-office policy that has spurred some employees to depart, along with a massive set of layoffs that began going into effect last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, the executive\u2019s departure is sure to spark more scrutiny of CBS News, which been under a microscope<\/a>\u00a0following Paramount\u2019s decision to put newsgathering under the aegis of Weiss, who has been skilled at capturing the attention of conservatives and political-opinion aficionados, but who has no experience running a mainstream media organization. Weiss reports directly to David Ellison, Paramount\u2019s new CEO, while the president of CBS News, Tom Cibrowski, is working alongside her to put initiatives into practice.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS News has endured months of chaos. Some of its shows, such as \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d have been the subject of complaints from the Trump administration, and two different groups of Paramount managers have undermined those programs\u2019 authority by paying a $16 million settlement to President Trump for what many experts believe was a flimsy lawsuit tied to a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview with former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Two senior executives, Bill Owens, the former \u201c60 Minutes\u201d executive producer, and Wendy McMahon, the former head of CBS News and local stations, both left the company, citing differences of opinion on how Paramount was handling these matters. More recently,\u00a0CBS News agreed to only present live interviews on \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0giving up its ability to edit out falsehoods or stonewalling by guests.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount drew further attention\u00a0by installing a former Trump adviser,<\/a>\u00a0Kenneth Weinstein, as an ombudsman tasked with monitoring CBS News\u2019 reporting and adjudicating claims of bias \u2014 a decision that could undermine the authority of the standards department.<\/p>\n

\n\tOrlando\u2019s role has shifted in recent months as CBS News has been placed under a series of new managers, none of whom seems to stay for more than two to three years. Before returning to oversee talent at CBS News, she had been dispatched to do the same for CBS\u2019 local TV stations. Prior to coming to CBS News, Orlando was a senior vice president for talent development and planning at ESPN, and a sports producer for MSG and Fox Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laurie Orlando, who has supervised talent recruitment and strategy at CBS News for nearly a decade, is leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[82701,12791,156,82702,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-116390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bari-weiss","9":"tag-cbs-news","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-laurie-orlando","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}