‘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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