Sharyn Alfonsi, a veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who has worked on the venerable newsmagazine since 2015, said Wednesday she believes CBS News has removed her from the program after she raised issues about the way Bari Weiss, the news division’s editor in chief, handled an Alfonsi report about how the U.S. deported Venezuelan men to a harsh prison in El Salvador.
Alfonsi remains an employee at CBS News, but her contract at “60 Minutes” expired earlier this month, according to two people familiar with her situation, and CBS News executives have made no effort to contact her representatives at the large talent agency UTA to renew terms.
CBS News declined to make executives available for comment. “I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting,” Alfonsi said in an interview with The New York Times.
Alfonsi will still be paid by CBS News as an at-will employee, one of these people said, but she has been left unable to do the work a “60 Minutes” correspondent might do once the show’s regular season is over, such as updating pieces to air during summer months and start reporting on stories for next season. Alfonsi’s producers have been reassigned, this person says.
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