CBS Names New International Editor Amid Internal Drama

0:00On April 29, CBS News just tapped Shane D. Race as their new international editor. She's coming over from the Wall Street Journal where she was deputy bureau chief for the Middle East and North Africa. Her job will be overseeing all global coverage, reporting to senior vice president Wendy Fisher. Leaders say she starts May 11. In a memo to staff, news chief Wendy Weiss and president Tom Sobrowski praised race as a top journalist and leader with nearly 20 years in the past time. They noted viewers crave international stories that connect far off events to life back home. This higher lands right amid some internal drama at CBS. Reports say Weiss, a strong Israel supporter, pushed to fire London bureau chief Claire Day over what she saw as bias coverage of the Gaza and Iran. Conflicts. Day allegedly leaned too sympathetic to Palestinians and clash in editorial calls. Authorities claim the London team came off as anti-Israel and Weiss even blocked sending

1:00a correspondent into Iran. Tensions boiled over recent war reporting, highlighting splits and how the network handles sensitive global beats. Races arrival could steady the ship, bringing fresh eyes to international ops as CBS ramps up its world coverage game. That's the story for today, entertainment and celebrity news today, driven by AI, I'm Cori with the story.