‘60 Minutes’ journalist Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS contract ended after furor over delayed segment
Alfonsi says CBS let her contract expire after she refused to alter a reported 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 Civil War Erupts After ’60 Minutes’ Reporter Forced Out
A dispute over one prison documentary has now exploded into a public breakup between CBS News and one of the most recognizable faces on “60 Minutes.” According to Fox News, veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi announced Wednesday that her contract with the network had expired after months of internal turmoil surrounding a delayed report on El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison complex. Alfonsi, who spent nearly 20 years at CBS and more than a dec…
Sharyn Alfonsi says she is being punished for a conflict that arose after the CBS editorial board blocked a report of hers about a notorious prison in El Salvador shortly before it was broadcast.
CBS Drops 60 Minutes Reporter After Clash Over Segment
A longtime 60 Minutes correspondent who publicly clashed with CBS News leadership over a pulled torture segment now finds herself without a contract. Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS let her 60 Minutes deal quietly lapse on Saturday, after weeks of unanswered outreach from her agent, reports the New York Times . Alfonsi...
Read the exit memo from '60 Minutes' correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who clashed with Bari Weiss
"60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is leaving the program.Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Texas Conference for WomenA veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent who's leaving the program had harsh words for CBS News.Sharyn Alfonsi had a face-off with CBS News chief Bari Weiss in December.Read Alfonsi's full memo to "60 Minutes" employees below.Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi isn't leaving the storied news program quietly.Alfonsi…
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