On October 29, CBS laid off 100 journalists. One of them was Debora Patta, who had been reporting, or as Ambassador Mike Huckabee might say, misreporting, from Israel.
More recently, she has been reporting from her native South Africa. More on the circumstances of her firing can be found here: “CBS reporter fired in wake of firestorm over Gaza interview with Mike Huckabee now looking to sue,” by Alexandra Steigrad, New York Post, October 30, 2025:
Ousted CBS News journalist Debora Patta — whose interview with Mike Huckabee on Gaza landed her in a controversy months before she got laid off this week — is looking to sue the network, The Post has learned
The South Africa-based foreign correspondent is “speaking to lawyers” after CBS News slashed her job just months after she came under fire from Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, who claimed an Aug. 7 interview he gave her was heavily edited and misrepresented his views on the situation in Gaza.
