Overview
- Alfonsi said her multi‑year 60 Minutes contract expired on Saturday and was not renewed, and she remains employed by CBS on an at‑will basis while she does not expect to return to the program.
- The move follows a December editorial dispute in which CBS News editor‑in‑chief Bari Weiss held Alfonsi’s ‘Inside CECOT’ segment hours before it was to air and later allowed it to run in January with added comments from the Trump administration.
- Alfonsi issued a public statement accusing network leaders of punishing her for refusing to ‘sanitize’ accurate reporting and warned that the decision sends a chilling message to newsroom staff.
- People who work at the show say producers who had worked with Alfonsi have been reassigned and that Weiss is preparing personnel and format changes for 60 Minutes, including new contributors and shorter digital pieces.
- The dispute has revived wider concerns about CBS’s newsroom autonomy after Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount, prior legal and corporate pressures on the network, and reports that Alfonsi has engaged lawyer Bryan Freedman as options are explored.