Overview
- Alfonsi said her 60 Minutes contract expired over the Memorial Day weekend and that CBS declined to renew it, leaving her employed only on an at-will basis.
- She does not expect to return to the program after producers who worked with her were reassigned to other correspondents.
- The dispute traces to Weiss’s December decision to temporarily hold Alfonsi’s ‘‘Inside CECOT’’ segment about Venezuelan migrants sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, a piece that later aired in January largely intact.
- Alfonsi called the nonrenewal punitive and accused network leadership of pressuring reporters to ‘‘sanitize’’ accurate reporting, and she has retained attorney Bryan Freedman as reports say legal options are under review.
- News outlets report a wider Weiss-led shake-up at 60 Minutes with new executive-producer hires and multiple departures, raising questions about the program’s editorial independence and what viewers should watch for next.