‘60 Minutes’ journalist Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS contract ended after furor over delayed segment
Alfonsi says CBS let her contract lapse after a clash over a segment on Venezuelan migrants sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison.
- Veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi announced that CBS News has declined to renew her contract, effectively drawing to a close her decade-long tenure on the flagship program 60 Minutes.
- The departure follows a high-profile internal feud that erupted in December when CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss abruptly delayed Alfonsi’s investigative piece regarding the treatment of Venezuelan migrants inside a notorious El Salvador prison.
- Alfonsi publicly slammed the network's decision, calling it a deliberate move to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting while warning that it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.
- While network executives have remained silent on the contract lapse, media analysts view the move as part of an aggressive editorial and structural shake-up led by Weiss, which has also seen the departure of fellow veteran correspondent Anderson Cooper.
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CBS Fires '60 Minutes' Correspondent After She Blasts Network for Ending Her Contract
“60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has been fired from CBS News six months after her “Inside CECOT” story caused tension with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. “Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes,” Alfonsi said in a lengthy statement. “Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my represent…
Sharyn Alfonsi out at ‘60 Minutes’ after Weiss feud
What happenedVeteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said Wednesday that CBS News had declined to renew her contract, six months after she clashed with newly installed network boss Bari Weiss over a segment on torture in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. According to Alfonsi, her “agent’s inquiries with CBS News over the past several weeks had been met with silence,” The New York Times said.Who said what After Weiss pulled the CECO…
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