High of the Ticker: CNN journalists Fred Pleitgen and Claudia Otto have been the first Western journalists to enter Iran for the reason that battle with Israel started final week. Pleitgen, who’s CNN’s senior worldwide correspondent, and Otto, the community’s photojournalist, visited the Iranian State Broadcasting Firm (IRIB) tv station, which was hit by an Israeli airstrike.

The crew toured components of the constructing that took a direct hit, together with the principle a part of the newsroom, the place desks, computer systems, printers, and telephones have been left charred and melted.

“All of that is taking part in very large right here in Iran,” Pleitgen mentioned. “There’s lots of public anger that the Israelis attacked this website.”

Pleitgen additionally filed a report from a protest in central Tehran held on Friday and had an interview with an Iranian Presidential Spokesman, who mentioned President Donald Trump can end the conflict with one call to the Israelis.

Capitol Hill Acknowledgement: A bipartisan decision was handed on Wednesday by the U.S. Senate, paying tribute to C-SPAN’s almost 40 years of masking the Senate. Recognizing the worth of unfiltered public entry to Senate proceedings, the decision was launched on June 2 by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and co-sponsored by Senators Todd Younger (R-IN) and Ron Wyden (D-OR). It commemorates the thirty ninth anniversary of C-SPAN2’s first stay broadcast from the U.S. Senate, applauds cable and satellite tv for pc suppliers for carrying C-SPAN as a public service, and urges all tv suppliers, together with main streaming providers, to make C-SPAN out there to their subscribers.

Profession recognition: CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Martha Teichner was celebrated on the fiftieth Annual Gracie Awards Luncheon in New York this previous week. Teichner obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award offered to her by colleague and good friend Jane Pauley, who mentioned, “Tips on how to describe such a lady in a phrase? The incomparable—Martha Teichner.” The awards ceremony was hosted by ABC Information’ Juju Chang.