To write or not to write?

CBS News staffers were grappling with conflicting orders Monday, according to three people familiar with the matter, after some producers at the Paramount Skydance news unit urged reporters and journalists to respond to an eyebrow-raising memo from new Editor in Chief Bari Weiss that drew criticism last week from the Writers Guild of America. In the memo, Weiss asked staffers to tell her “how you spend your working hours” and what they thought of CBS News, so that she and editorial employees could be “aligned on achieving a shared vision for CBS News.”

Within hours of the memo surfacing, the WGA counseled union members at CBS News not to answer the missive until CBS provided more details on what its purpose was, including whether their replies could serve

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