(L-R): CBS News correspondents Ramy Inocencio, Ian Lee and Imtiaz Tyab

CBS News named three correspondents to key international newsgathering posts to enhance the Network’s coverage in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and around the world, it was announced today by Susan Zirinsky, CBS News President and Senior Executive Producer. Ramy Inocencio becomes CBS News’ Asia correspondent, based in Beijing. Ian Lee and Imtiaz Tyab have been named CBS News correspondents, based in London.

These veteran journalists will bolster CBS News’ robust international reporting team that covers wars, natural disasters and geopolitical issues around the globe. They will contribute to all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

Ramy Inocencio, who has covered Asia extensively over the past 20 years, is returning to Beijing to cover the region for CBS News. He was most recently a New York-based anchor and correspondent for “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.” At Bloomberg, he covered the first face-to-face summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago and reported from Paris on the Bastille Day terror attack in 2016. Before that, he hosted the Wall Street Journal weekly technology show “Digits” from Hong Kong and covered major stories across the region, including Pope Francis’ first visit to the Philippines. Earlier in his career, Inocencio was based in Hong Kong as CNN International’s Asia business correspondent and also served as CNN’s NASDAQ reporter in New York. Click here to read his full biography.

Ian Lee joined the London bureau in March, a new position, splitting his time between Newspath, CBS News and CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 streaming news service. Prior to CBS, he was a correspondent for CNN based in Jerusalem. Lee joined CNN in 2011 while living in Egypt, where he covered the country’s uprising and subsequent 2013 coup, in addition to other major stories across the Middle East. Before that, he was the multimedia editor at the “Daily News Egypt.” During that time, he was also a freelance video journalist for Time magazine, and he also spent a year as a producer for Reuters. He has covered such international news as the 2011 Arab Spring, the Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2014 Gaza War and the 2017 crisis in North Korea. Click here to read more about his career.

Imtiaz Tyab also joined CBS News in March and has most recently focused his reporting on Syria and Lebanon with Al Jazeera English. He was based in Washington, D.C. for Al Jazeera English. Before that, he worked for the BBC, reporting extensively across the United Kingdom and Europe. He also served as part of the BBC’s Washington team during the first year of the Obama administration. Tyab was one of the first international journalists to report live from Abbottabad after the 2011 killing of Osama Bin Ladin by U.S. Special Forces and was in Kabul during the 2014 Afghanistan general elections. Click here to read more about Tyab.

About CBS News:

CBS News is the news and information division of CBS Corporation, dedicated to providing the highest quality journalism under standards it pioneered and continues to set in today’s digital age. Headquartered in the famed CBS Broadcast Center in New York, CBS News has bureaus across the globe and produces influential, critically acclaimed programs providing original reporting, interviews, investigations, analysis and breaking news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. CBS News provides news and information for the CBS Television Network, CBSN, CBSNews.com, CBS News Radio and CBS Mobile. CBS News is home to the nation’s #1 news program, 60 MINUTES, CBSN, the 24/7 digital streaming news network, and the award-winning broadcasts CBS THIS MORNING, THE CBS EVENING NEWS, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, 48 HOURS and FACE THE NATION.

Follow CBS News on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and listen to podcasts at Play.it. Follow the CBS News Press Office on Twitter.

* * *

Press Contact: