Ramy Inocencio is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London covering Europe and the Middle East – for streaming, television, radio, podcast and the written word. With more than two decades of on-the-ground journalism spanning war zones, geopolitical flashpoints, historic milestones and business and finance, he has reported from or traveled across nearly 60 countries in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East – from the front lines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, the fall of Hong Kong’s democracy movement and the death of Queen Elizabeth II. His contributions to CBS Mornings along the way earned him a share of the program’s News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live News Program.
Since moving to London in late 2021, Inocencio has covered the Middle East and Europe’s defining conflicts extensively. He has deployed repeatedly to Israel to report on the war in Gaza following Hamas’ terror attacks on October 7th, 2023, including an embed with the IDF in southern Lebanon during Israel’s ground campaign against Hezbollah. He has also deployed repeatedly to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, embedding with the Ukrainian army on the front line and reporting on Russian missile strikes on civilian targets and the war crimes committed in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha.
His Iran reporting has also been extensive. He was the first CBS News correspondent to secure an on-camera interview with an Iranian protester during the wave of university unrest that swept the country in January 2026 – the most significant campus protests since the regime’s bloody nationwide crackdown – breaking through the government’s internet blackout to get the story out. His coverage has spanned the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of dissent, its nuclear standoff with Washington and the wider regional fallout from Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
From London, he has also covered the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III, UK politics and its revolving door of prime ministers, the rise of the far right and reported extensively from Denmark on President Trump’s attempts to acquire Greenland, speaking with former ministers, ambassadors and NATO’s Secretary General. Not all of his reporting has been hard news. For CBS Saturday Morning, he has served up The Dish features to CBS News, exploring food as storytelling and profiling the chefs and culinary traditions that define a place and its people – from Thai and ramen masters to the bakers keeping Portugal’s iconic pastel de nata alive. For CBS Sunday Morning, Inocencio featured the remarkable revival of Wrexham AFC – telling the story of how Hollywood actors Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds took over the failing Welsh soccer club to breathe new life into an entire town and inspiring new fans around the world.
Before London, Inocencio served as CBS News’ Asia correspondent in Beijing – the network’s first Asian American in the role. He and his team were the first U.S. network journalists to report from Wuhan as COVID-19 broke out in January 2020, following the virus from mainland China to Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, where he was stranded for six months due to border closures. In Hong Kong, he provided rolling frontline coverage of the 2019 pro-democracy protests – from the storming of the legislature to Beijing’s National Security Law, which ended political dissent in the city for good. He knew protest leaders personally, many of whom, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai and student activist Joshua Wong, have since been imprisoned.
Before CBS News, Inocencio spent four years at Bloomberg TV as an anchor, correspondent and podcaster for “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia” at the network’s flagship New York headquarters, interviewing Fortune 500 CEOs and leading financial analysts, covering the first Trump-Xi summit at Mar-a-Lago, daily U.S. and global market movements, and hosting “Wiring the World,” his technology innovation series across America. He also anchored Bloomberg Radio and hosted two daily podcasts on U.S.-Asia Pacific ties.
Prior to Bloomberg, he was the Wall Street Journal’s deputy Asia-Pacific editor in Hong Kong and host of the WSJ’s weekly technology show “Digits,” helping to train the paper’s traditional print reporters across the region for an emerging multiplatform, streaming and broadcast world, while filing one-man-band reports from across Asia. Before that, he was CNN International’s Asia business correspondent in Hong Kong and CNN’s NASDAQ reporter in New York.