Former WBZ morning anchor Kate Merrill sues station, CBS and Paramount, charging she was forced out because she's a white woman

The text string Merrill says began her trouble: How to pronounce "Concord."

Longtime WBZ reporter and anchor Kate Merrill, who mysteriously disappeared from the air in the spring of 2024, today sued her former station, network and network owner - and two Black former colleagues - for what she said was a network-orchestrated campaign to shed whites like her.

In the early 2020s, WBZ-TV, adopted diversity, equity and inclusion policies imposed by its parent corporations Columbia Broadcasting System and Paramount Global, Inc. In 2024, WBZ-TV exploited such policies and took career-ending action against Ms. Merrill to advance a DEI agenda.

In her complaint, filed in US District Court in Boston, Merrill said she had long advocated for younger Black colleagues, including the two she named in h