Wendy McMahon resigns from her CBS News post amid '60 Minutes' crisis

Wendy McMahon is stepping down arsenic president of CBS News and Stations, indicating her disagreement with the genitor company’s handling of President Trump’s suit against “60 Minutes.”

“It’s go wide that the institution and I bash not hold connected the way forward,” McMahon said successful a enactment sent to CBS News unit Monday. “It’s clip for maine to determination connected and for this enactment to determination guardant with caller leadership.”

McMahon has been steadfast successful her presumption that CBS News genitor Paramount Global should not settee the $20-billion suit from Trump, which claims an October interrogation with his 2024 hostile Vice President Kamala Harris was deceptively edited to assistance her statesmanlike campaign.

The suit is an obstacle to Paramount Global’s projected $8-billion merchantability to Skydance Media. The lawsuit has gone to a mediator.

McMahon’s departure is simply a motion that a colony whitethorn beryllium close.

With McMahon’s exit, CBS News President Tom Cibrowski and CBS Stations President Jennifer Mitchell volition each study straight to CBS Chief Executive George Cheeks.

McMahon joined CBS successful 2021. She oversaw the company’s syndication part and TV stations arsenic good arsenic CBS News.

Cheeks brought McMahon to the institution from Walt Disney Co., wherever she led the ABC presumption group. At the time, Cheeks was trying to cleanable up its stations division, which was plagued by absorption issues and the firing of its erstwhile head, Peter Dunn.

Since then, McMahon roseate to beryllium 1 of Cheeks’ astir trusted lieutenants, taking implicit CBS News. But she irked Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, implicit CBS News sum of the Israel-Hamas war.

Times unit writer Meg James contributed to this report.