Bureau chief Claire Day and editor in chief Bari Weiss had reportedly been battling over the network’s coverage of the wars in the Middle East
By Ben Kroll, Reposted from Haaretz, April 28, 2026
CBS News’ London bureau chief has been dismissed over differences with Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over coverage of the wars in Iran and Gaza, two sources familiar with the matter told The New York Post.
The Post reported that Claire Day, who has worked at CBS for over two decades and was appointed to the top London job last May, had been clashing with Weiss over the network’s Middle East coverage and had been “pushing back” when confronted about it, a CBS source said.
Day will be replaced by Shayndi Raice, the deputy chief of The Wall Street Journal’s Mideast and North Africa bureau, currently based in Israel.
CBS News President Tom Cibrowski made no mention of possible tensions in announcing Day’s departure.
“Our London Bureau will be moving to a new editorial leadership structure, with the introduction of a Foreign Editor role overseeing all international coverage,” he wrote in a memo.
Cibrowski described Day as “an advocate for courageous stories, an expert at complicated logistics and a wonderful partner to teams across the entire news division. Her work made a difference for CBS News.”
One source at CBS News told The New York Post that while there weren’t any direct blow-ups between the two during daily editorial meetings, Day did make it clear that she’s looking for the network’s coverage to be more balanced.
Describing her as being “the most committed soldier at CBS News” for nearly 25 years, the source added: “For Bari [Weiss] and Tom [Cibrowski] to discard her because she failed some undefined purity test is appalling.”
Day’s replacement Raice is a Yeshiva University alum and attended Columbia University for graduate school.
Weiss was named editor-in-chief of CBS News in October, following David Ellison’s purchase of Weiss’ The Free Press for $150 million. A noted and staunch advocate for the Israeli government, Weiss famously departed The New York Times in 2020, charging that the paper had become a place where “intellectual curiosity – let alone risk-taking – is now a liability.”
Weiss’ relationship to Israel has been central to both her personal identity and professional trajectory. Raised in a Zionist household in Pittsburgh, she spent a gap year in Israel and later returned to live in the country in 2007–08, writing for Haaretz while on a Dorot Fellowship.
Ben Kroll is a Breaking News Writer at Haaretz.com.
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