CBS News has reportedly declined to renew its contract with Sharyn Alfonsi, the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent whose segment about the Trump administration deporting Venezuelan men to a prison in El Salvador was abruptly pulled off the air late last year.<\/p>\n
Alfonsi confirmed the expiration of her CBS News deal in an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday. CBS News and Alfonsi did not immediately respond to NBC News\u2019 requests for comment on the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom,\u201d Alfonsi told the Times. \u201cI think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c60 Minutes\u201d ultimately aired Alfonsi\u2019s segment in January after a last-minute postponement in late December that the correspondent had claimed was \u201cnot an editorial decision\u201d but \u201ca political one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The segment featured interviews with men who were deported from the U.S. to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The interviewees described torture and physical and sexual abuse at the complex.<\/p>\n
In an editorial call Dec. 22, the morning after \u201cInside CECOT\u201d was pulled from the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d lineup, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss said she had held the story \u201cbecause it was not ready,\u201d according to a source.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the story presented powerful testimony of torture at CECOT, it did not advance the ball \u2014 the Times and other outlets have previously done similar work,\u201d Weiss told CBS News staffers, according to that source.<\/p>\n Weiss is a former opinion writer and editor at the Times who launched the website The Free Press in 2021. Paramount Skydance, which owns CBS, acquired The Free Press and hired Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News in October.<\/p>\n Alfonsi, who made her \u201c60 Minutes\u201d debut in 2015, continued to appear on the newsmagazine through the end of its 58th season, which concluded May 17.<\/p>\n She is the second \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent to exit the show since Weiss became top editor at CBS News, following Anderson Cooper, who signed off this month after 20 years on the broadcast.<\/p>\n In a farewell message that aired this month, Cooper said in part: \u201cThe independence of \u201860 Minutes\u2019 has been critical, and I think the trust it has with viewers is critical to the success of \u201860 Minutes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CBS News has reportedly declined to renew its contract with Sharyn Alfonsi, the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessprofittoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}