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Daily Mail · Gaza · 14 Oct 2026

The headline editorialises, the legal stakes go unmentioned, and one side gets far more space.

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CBS News London bureau staffers reprimanded after edits to Gaza war segment and cut Palestinian death toll were 'leaked' to press, report claims

CBS News London bureau staffers were scolded on Tuesday over a report that suggested one of its reporters encountered resistance from a top editor when trying to include the Palestinian death toll in an 'Evening News' report last week. The branch's top editor, former Wall Street Journal exec Shayndi Raice, handed out the tongue-lashing, according to Status and The Guardian's Jeremy Barr. Barr was first to report on the all-hands morning editorial meeting in a Tuesday X post. A report from Status, the outlet responsible for the initial Monday piece, soon followed. Both billed the meeting as a 'lecture,' with Status pointing out how Raice was personally brought on by then-new CBS News chief Bari Weiss earlier this year. Raice reportedly began the meeting by mentioning the Monday Status report, which mentioned the purported clash between Raice and CBS News Senior Foreign Correspondent Holly Williams in passing. Most of the piece was devoted to reported complaints from 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl, who a source said was considering quitting over a round of edits to her segment on the current situation in the West Bank that aired Sunday. Weiss, an ardent Israel supporter, was pegged as responsible, as was her handpicked deputy, CBS News Managing Editor Charles Forelle. The disagreement between Raice and Williams stemmed from the latter's desire to include a death toll from the war in Gaza in her piece that aired on October 7, Status reported Monday. The context, while initially included, didn't make it into the final cut. CBS News London bureau staffers were reportedly scolded on Tuesday over a report that suggested one of its journalists encountered resistance while trying to include the Palestinian death toll in an Evening News report that aired last week Reporter Holly Williams handled the segment, which sought to explain the situation in Gaza three years on from the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. Her original script included the number of casualties recorded since - a detail that did not make it into the final cut 'This is not your publishing platform,' Raice told staffers the morning after those reported details were leaked. 'This is a company that we all work for, and there’s a hierarchy in place.' 'If you can’t answer to that hierarchy, and you don’t listen to what we say, that is called insubordination, and it’s legal grounds for firing.' 'We're going to change some of the workflow,' she reportedly added, referring to the bureau's foreign desk. 'This doesn't specifically have to do with what happened last week. This really has been a long time coming.' Raice then opened the floor to questions, according to Status. The first to speak up was reportedly Williams herself. She began by acknowledging earlier remarks from Raice during the 15-minute-long missive – all of which assured the reporter that she was not the one being singled out. 'So I obviously heard what you said, Shayndi, about it not being an attack on me, and thank you for that,' Williams began, according to Status. 'But just so I do understand a little bit better, are you suggesting that I am posturing, that I've ignored you, self-published material, or are you accusing me of insubordination? I just want a bit more clarity on what of that is specifically directed at me.' 'None of this, Holly, is directed at you,' Raice reportedly replied. 'This is something that I have been discussing for a long time, and I also, I mean, yeah, none of it's directed at you.' The branch's top editor, former Wall Street Journal exec Shayndi Raice, was responsible, and handed out the tongue-lashing the morning after a Monday report from Status shed light on the situation, along with reported complaints from 60 Minutes long-timer Lesley Stahl Stahl's issues and the direction that reportedly angered her remain unknown. The finished product offered a look at violent Israeli settlers who use sheep farms and other strategies to take over West Bank land. Stahl has been a 60 Minutes correspondent for 35 years Raice assured Williams that they could continue the conversation privately. 'But none of this is directed at anyone in particular.' Williams responded by pointing out how the direction she received about the casualty count – nearly 75,000 people since October 7, 2023 – 'wasn't a negotiation' as she and other staffers were used to receiving. 'I was told that I had to make the changes as written, and that there was no negotiation,' Williams said. 'At that point - yes, that's right,' Raice reportedly admitted. 'At that point, there was no negotiation. Now, had you called me, we could have had a discussion. But at that point, there wasn't.' She reportedly added: 'We're not saving Palestinians by saying, by repeating this magic number.' 'It's just these are hard decisions that people see differently on, and we have to debate it, and you know, we come up with the best way we think,' Raice reportedly said. Williams then revealed another part of her script that was removed, according to Status – one that the reporter framed as her 'biggest concern about the dictated script that was sent to me.' Raice was handpicked for her post by CBS News chief Bari Weiss - an ardent Israel supporter seen here last month with German media executive Mathias Döpfner and Peter Thiel in Berlin Another cut portion of Williams' script reportedly referenced allegations specific to Benjamin Netanyahu' and how the Israeli leader may have received advance notice of the attack by Hamas. Israel began it ongoing military campaign immediately after 'It was about the removal of the allegations specific to Benjamin Netanyahu,' she told the room, in what Status pointed out was a reference to reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had received advance notice of the attack by Hamas that led to Israel's military response. Raice said she 'actually felt really strong' about her move not to include such reporting, arguing that the Israeli leader had long denied the claims and CBS News had not 'independently confirmed those allegations.' 'Secondly, I was just in Israel for Sukkot. I have a lot of friends who live there. We're talking about politics the entire time. Everybody was talking about the election. Everybody was talking about Netanyahu and October 7. Nobody was talking about those allegations,' Raice reportedly continued. 'And you know why? Because nobody really cares. That is not an issue in the election.' 'Those allegations are a sideshow,' Raice added, according to Status. 'It's not important, and I just think you got it wrong. 'And you probably got it wrong because you don't know the story as well as I do. And that's where my experience and my judgment comes in.' Raice also claimed any suggestions she or anyone else was 'trying to project' Netanyahu is 'like ridiculous,' Status reported. 'I did not accuse you of that,' Williams reportedly said. 'We're not saving Palestinians by saying, by repeating this magic number,' Raice reportedly said, while announcing that the desk's workflow was set to change. The Daily Mail approached CBS News for comment 'I'm just saying I know that story really well, and I have thoughts on how to frame it,' Raice hit back. 'In general, we will be able to have a lot of back and forth.' 'But I think that the main, the broader points are what's important here,' Raice reportedly concluded. 'And I'm very happy to have a full debrief with you, Holly.' The Daily Mail has approached CBS News for comment. The Monday report from Status also claimed that Stahl, 84, became frustrated last week after Weiss, 42, and Forelle began participating in screenings and suggesting edits for her segment on the violence Palestinians have faced from extremist Israeli settlers, to the point where she was ready to call it a career. The issues and the direction that reportedly angered her, for now, remain unknown. 'This is a ludicrous, twisted narrative,' a CBS spokesperson said of the claims surrounding Stahl and Weiss Tuesday morning. 'All 60 Minutes pieces go through a famously rigorous editorial process - which includes edits from editors. This piece received far fewer edits than most.' A source who spoke with the Mail expressed similar sentiments, months after Weiss made a slew of changes to the newsmagazine in anticipation of her first full season in charge. 'Things have changed at 60 Minutes. It was previously siloed off from CBS. That's not the case anymore,' they said, referring to edits from CBS staffers that 60 Minutes mainstays like Stahl may not be used to. After Scott Pelley's sensational exit from the program in June, a former CBS News executive told the Mail that 'arrogance' has 'pervaded' CBS for years, particularly within 60 Minutes.

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