Shanelle Kaul Named Correspondent at CBS News

Shanelle Kaul
Shanelle Kaul (Image credit: CBS News and Stations)

Shanelle Kaul has joined CBS News as a correspondent for CBS, CBS News Radio and Newspath. Kaul starts January 13 and will report to the CBS News Special Events and Newsgathering units. She will work alongside Jarred Hill, who was recently named a morning correspondent for Newspath.

Kaul comes from CP24 in Canada. At CP24, she moderated primetime news panels and anchored Bell Media’s 24-hour national news network, CTV News Channel; CTV’s national morning show, Your Morning; and guest-hosted CTV’s daytime talk show The Social.

Before joining CP24, Kaul was weekend anchor and daily reporter at CTV News Edmonton. She began her broadcasting career in 2011 at Global Toronto’s assignment desk.

Kaul was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Toronto.

She will be based in New York. ■

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.