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‘60 Minutes’ journalist Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS contract ended after furor over delayed segment
CBS News let her contract expire after she refused to alter a segment on alleged abuse at a Salvadoran prison, according to reporting.
- 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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‘60 Minutes’ journo Sharyn Alfonsi loses CBS News contract in wake of clashes with network, Bari Weiss
CBS News declined to renew “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi's contract after months of drama in which the journo accused the network's leadership of political interference.
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CBS boots '60 Minutes' reporter who refused to sanitize deportation story: reports
Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS News has effectively pushed her out after she refused to alter her explosive report on the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan men to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison — and stood her ground against network boss Bari Weiss.Alfo...
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