Overview
- CBS News told staff Monday in a memo that it will add a Foreign Editor to oversee all international coverage and that London bureau chief Claire Day will leave on May 1.
- Multiple outlets, including Variety and Deadline, report that Wall Street Journal editor Shayndi Raice is expected to take the new post in London, with a mid-May start reported by the New York Post.
- The New York Post reports Day’s exit followed clashes with editor in chief Bari Weiss over how to cover Iran and the war in Gaza, a dispute CBS has not detailed publicly.
- The Post also reports an internal review cleared Day of allegations of bias after complaints inside the London bureau.
- Raice has been the Journal’s deputy bureau chief for the Middle East and North Africa and is based in Israel, a background Variety notes could shape CBS’s foreign agenda during a wider reorganization under Paramount–Skydance.