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In another example of international downsizing by American networks, TVNewser has learned CBS News is letting go four longtime camera/sound crews from the London bureau. CBS News EVP Paul Friedman made the trip to London earlier this week — to a CBS News operation once headed by Edward R. Murrow — to deliver the bad news.
Gone are cameraman Siphiwo Ralo, a South African who, in the early ’90′s, helped the network get access to the ghettos as apartheid was coming to an end. He’d been with CBS since 1985. Also gone, Nick Turner, who learned of the changes via phone. He is undergoing cancer treatment and not working at the moment. Cameraman Massimo Mariani and sound man Andy Stevenson are also being let go. The men have covered war zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia and beyond.
And CBS is not alone when it comes to international downsizing.
All three U.S. broadcast networks have made cuts in international news gathering in recent years as costs rise and viewership, and the advertising revenue which pays the bills, declines. In 2008, NBC’s London Bureau saw a reorganization and staff buyouts as the network moved in with its British broadcasting partner ITN.
Last year, ABC News cut 20 employees in their London bureau, or about 30% of the staff.
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