CBS News has parted ways with longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi after declining to renew her contract.
The split comes months after Alfonsi clashed with CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss over a segment about conditions inside El Salvador’s CECOT prison involving deported migrants and President Trump’s administration.
The Trending Politics report laid out the contract decision and the internal fight that preceded it:
Alfonsi’s deal expired over the weekend, and CBS chose not to renew it after nearly two decades with the network and more than a decade on 60 Minutes. The exit followed a high-profile fight over a CECOT segment that examined conditions inside the Salvadoran prison used to hold deported migrants.
The dispute traces back to CBS holding the segment before it aired. Alfonsi told colleagues in internal emails that Bari Weiss’s decision to spike the piece was political, while CBS leadership treated the situation as a serious newsroom chain-of-command problem.
Several sources told the New
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