{"id":609861,"date":"2026-04-27T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609861\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:59:11","slug":"cbs-news-ousts-london-bureau-chief-claire-day-after-she-clashed-with-bari-weiss-over-iran-gaza-coverage-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609861\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News ousts London bureau chief Claire Day after she clashed with Bari Weiss over Iran, Gaza coverage: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS News has ousted London bureau chief Claire Day after she clashed with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss<\/a> over the network\u2019s coverage of Iran and Gaza, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

A CBS source told The Post that Shayndi Raice, a newly hired foreign editor from the Wall Street Journal, will lead all international coverage across CBS News and will be based out of London starting May 11.<\/p>\n

In a memo to staffers, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski<\/a> said: \u201cOur London Bureau will be moving to a new editorial leadership structure, with the introduction of a foreign editor role overseeing all international coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n

London bureau chief Claire Day is exiting CBS News amid tensions over Middle East coverage,
sources said. CBS News<\/p>\n

Tom Cibrowski with Bari Weiss. Michele Crowe\/CBS<\/p>\n

He added that Day, who will leave the network on May 1, has been \u201cdedicated to the craft of storytelling\u201d and that \u201cher work made a difference for CBS News.\u201d<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, insiders said tensions have lately spilled over inside the London Bureau over Middle East coverage. One freelance cameraman and editor had accused Day of running the London bureau like a \u201cHamas cell,\u201d according to a source.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, when addressing staff about her departure, Day asked the unnamed cameraman \u2014 who, according to a source, had claimed to have a \u201cdirect line\u201d to Weiss \u2014 to step out of the room before she gave an \u201cemotional\u201d farewell and lauded \u201cpraise\u201d on her team, a source said.<\/p>\n

An internal probe over potential slanted coverage cleared Day of any alleged bias, sources said.<\/p>\n

Neither Day nor CBS News commented.<\/p>\n

Weiss had clashed with Day over Gaza and Iran coverage, sources told The Post. CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Day, who was appointed London bureau chief two years ago and has worked at CBS News for two decades, had clashed with Weiss, a self-proclaimed Zionist,<\/a> over coverage on Iran and Gaza, a source with knowledge said. <\/p>\n

\u201cClaire was pushing back on calls\u201d with Weiss over coverage, the person said, also claiming that \u201cBari barely spoke to her\u201d to address her issues.<\/p>\n

A second CBS insider added that there was never any kind of blow-up on daily editorial calls, but that Day made it clear that she wanted coverage to be balanced.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really sad. Claire has been the most committed soldier to CBS News for nearly a quarter of a century,\u201d the source added. \u201cFor Bari and Tom to discard her because she failed some undefined purity test is appalling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shayndi Raice, a newly hired foreign editor from the Wall Street Journal, will lead all international coverage across CBS News as its foreign editor. Facebook \/ Shayndi Rice<\/p>\n

A third CBS source lamented the lack of TV and management experience of Day\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman who is taking over has no previous television experience and very little managerial experience \u2014 certainly on the scale required,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n

Raice, who had been based in Israel, has covered security issues related to the Middle East for the Journal following the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. Prior to that, she was the WSJ\u2019s Midwest bureau chief and covered tech and finance in San Francisco and New York.<\/p>\n

A network source dismissed the idea that Raice lacked managerial experience, citing her four-year stint as deputy bureau chief of the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n

Norah O\u2019Donnell recently landed a sitdown with President Trump for \u201c60 Minutes\u201d following the shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. CBS<\/p>\n

Breaker first reported that Raice would be decamping the Journal for CBS News for a foreign editor role.<\/p>\n

All of this comes at a bittersweet time for CBS News, which celebrated a few wins over the weekend in its coverage of Saturday\u2019s shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner where President Trump was set to roast journalists at the Hilton hotel in Washington, DC.<\/a><\/p>\n

The headquarters of CBS in New York City. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n

CBS News correspondents sprang into action to cover the thwarted assassination attempt on Trump, and correspondent Norah O\u2019Donnell landed an exclusive interview with the president for \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d<\/a> which aired Sunday.<\/p>\n

Weiss helped lead the charge and addressed employees on Monday about their excellent work, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News has ousted London bureau chief Claire Day after she clashed with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[100518,28,991,7930,88,5619,801,10815],"class_list":{"0":"post-609861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bari-weiss","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cbs","11":"tag-cbs-news","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gaza-strip","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}