CNN Philippines Newsroom

As a noontime newscast

The newscast was launched on March 16, 2015 as a 60-minute standalone noontime newscast, replacing Newsday (which ran across CNN PH's predecessors TalkTV, Solar News Channel and 9TV). It was first anchored by former CNN Philippines News chief Jing Magsaysay and journalist Mai Rodriguez, who was held over from Newsday.

In September 2015, Magsaysay left the newscast after his resignation following the "right-sizing" retrenchment of 70 junior staffers and contractual employees, who worked in the company for Programming and Technical Engineering divisions, leaving Rodriguez as the sole anchor for the rest of its run.^[4]

Expansion

On February 15, 2016, the newscast expanded its airtime, aligning with its international counterpart. However, the expansion reformatted from a single 60-minute newscast to three 30-minute editions in its initial run. The 8am edition was first anchored by the late Amelyn Veloso, who formerly anchored CNN Philippines Headline News and was concurrently hosting Serbisyo All Access. Claire Celdran replaced Rodriguez in the noontime edition while the latter became anchor of the network's weekend newscasts. The 9:00pm edition replaced CNN Philippines Nightly News, anchored by its holdover, Mitzi Borromeo. The English-language noontime edition and the original broadcast of Newsroom was axed on April 4, 2016 and reformatted to Balitaan with Pinky Webb.

On April 11, 2016, Newsroom debuted a 3 pm edition dubbed as Global Newsroom catering on international news relevant to Filipinos, first hosted by Claire Celdran. It carries the similar format of Global Conversations, which was cancelled four months later (August 26).

On February 6, 2017, Newsroom launched its mid-morning edition in Filipino language dubbed as Newsroom Ngayon, anchored by Ruth Cabal replacing Serbisyo All Access.^[3] Newsroom Ngayon serves as a sister newscast with CNN Philippines' first Filipino language newscast, Balitaan, which airs at midday.

On February 27, 2017, due to personnel reshuffling, Claire Celdran replaced Veloso at the 8 am slot while Network News anchor Pia Hontiveros took over the Global Newsroom chair. Veloso would occasionally appear in special editions, until she died of cancer on August 24.^[5]

On March 4, 2017, Newsroom launched its weekend edition anchored by the pioneer weekday noontime anchor Mai Rodriguez. It started out at the Saturday noontime slot until April 1, 2017 when it expanded to include broadcasts on weekend evenings at 6 pm, following the cancellation of Network News a week before as a result of the launching of News Night on weeknights from March 27. Newsroom Weekend later added a Sunday noontime edition on May 28, 2017 at the wake of the Marawi City crisis. Prior to a permanent weekend expansion, Rodriguez anchored special newscasts during severe weather coverage and other news of utmost importance.

Global Newsroom aired its last broadcast on December 29, 2017, to gave way to the extension of Amanpour on January 1, 2018 as part of the network reorganization. Prior to the extension, some segments of the latter were usually aired on Global Newsroom.

On January 31, 2018, Mitzi Borromeo left the evening edition to pursue an advanced degree while retaining her position as host of Profiles and will appear on special editions. It was announced that former TV5 anchor and former Department of Transportation undersecretary Cherie Mercado will replace Borromeo on the anchor chair beginning February 12. From February 1 to 9, Pia Hontiveros and correspondent Joyce Ilas took turns in anchoring the newscast in interim.

On May 31, 2018, Claire Celdran left both New Day and the morning edition, citing more time to spend for her family. Former ANC anchor Ria Tanjuatco-Trillo replaced Celdran on both shows. Prior to this, Mai Rodriguez and Ruth Cabal took turns in filling-up Celdran's vacant spot.

On September 3, 2018, Ruth Cabal and Cherie Mercado switched anchoring duties, with Cabal leading the 9pm primetime edition and Mercado anchoring Newsroom Ngayon, citing personal reasons. CNN Philippines also launched a 15-minute weekend Newsroom Junior Edition on September 1 as part of the CNN PH Junior weekend morning block, featuring kids and young teens anchoring news bites of the day, similar to its predecessor RPN's NewsWatch Junior Edition (2008–09) and Jr. NewsWatch (2005).

Special editions

When warranted, Newsroom would air special editions of the newscast, either within or beyond the current four-edition format. Emulating its international counterpart, Newsroom preempts programming for rolling news coverage and breaking stories (i.e. Senate and Congress hearings, and hooking up to CNN International during major relevant overseas coverage). However, when special events warrant during the early primetime slot, this function goes to News Night with Pia Hontiveros until 8:00 pm and only under the most dire situations would warrant preemption of the weeknight 9:00 pm edition in favor of uninterrupted coverage starting from where News Night leaves off.