Roxana Saberi, an award-winning international journalist and author, is joining CBS News as a London-based correspondent. She will report for all CBS News platforms. Saberi is a familiar face to viewers, having served as a freelance correspondent for CBS News and Newspath, CBS News' affiliate news service, since 2016. She has also appeared as a fill-in anchor on CBSN, CBS News' 24/7 digital streaming news network.
Saberi brings a wealth of unique international and national reporting experience to the position. Before joining CBS News, Saberi was a correspondent for Al Jazeera America, where she reported breaking news, enterprise and investigative stories across the United States and abroad. She reported on child labor and Muslim-Buddhist tensions in Myanmar. In Japan, she hosted and reported a special on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, the U.S. military presence in Okinawa and being biracial in Japanese society. At Al Jazeera America, Saberi also created a social justice beat, filing reports on gender issues, LGBTQ rights and racial and ethnic minorities. Earlier, Saberi spent six years living and reporting in Iran. Fluent in Persian, she covered politics, foreign policy, the nuclear program, the economy, culture and the changing roles of women in Iran. While there, she opened and ran Feature Story News' Tehran bureau, contributing daily and in-depth news reports for media organizations including PBS, FOX News, Channel News Asia, NPR, PRI and Deutsche Welle. She also served as BBC's freelance correspondent in Iran and filed radio reports for ABC.Videos