CBS News Declined to Renew Contract for Correspondent

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

CBS News has not renewed the contract of Sharyn Alfonsi, the "60 Minutes" correspondent who clashed with Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over a December report on a Salvadoran prison, according to an interview published on Wednesday in the New York Times.

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60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:

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... Alfonsi told the New York Times on Wednesday that she continues to be employed at CBS, albeit without a contract, and does not expect to return to "60 Minutes," the storied news magazine show.

CBS is owned by Paramount Skydance. A network spokesperson did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters was unable to reach Alfonsi for comment. ...

The network's unwillingness to renew her contract "sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom," Alfonsi told the Times. "I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting." ...

Skydance Media, run by David Ellison - the son of longtime supporter of President Donald Trump, Larry Ellison -- acquired Paramount in August and installed Weiss in October as editor-in-chief. David Ellison helped secure regulatory approval for the deal, which created Paramount Skydance with the promise that the CBS network would reflect the "varied ideological perspectives" of American viewers. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-27 03:13 PM | Reply

Both Sides are to blame for the escalation that's happening at CBS News.
--KWRX25

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-27 06:02 PM | Reply

CBS News seems to want to become a faint image of the greatness of its former self.

It seems to want to expand out into social media, where opinions expressed as news seem to matter more than facts.

Mr Cronkite is likely turning over in his grave.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-28 08:14 PM | Reply

RIP, CBS News.

If they could capture the energy, somehow, the combined spinning of Ed Murrow, Eric Severeid, Bill Paley, Cronkite, Mudd, et al, could power a city.

#4 | Posted by morris at 2026-05-28 09:10 PM | Reply

I really liked the good old days when pols and other hucksters dropped a load at the sight of Mike Wallace.

#5 | Posted by morris at 2026-05-28 09:12 PM | Reply

4, 5:

Exactly. Charles Kuralt, Charles Osgood were treasures.

Revelations of Kuralt's double life are bizarre, but whatever. . . .

www.salon.com

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-05-29 11:11 AM | Reply

I still really like 60 Minutes. It stands far apart from most everything else.

Yes, it's a for-profit business and occasionally that means something like this happens.....but hopefully not too often.

And I hope there is more to this that gives solid cause for CBS to move on from her......and I really like her.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-29 11:15 AM | Reply

"...but hopefully not too often.
And I hope there is more to this"... #7 | Posted by eberly

I enjoy when you do have something meaningful to add because you seem to be more moderate like me, but it is posts like this that had me so frustrated with Jeff and his fence sitting with Trump in the first administration. I feel like you are giving them too much lenience in your opinion and therefore you wont hold them accountable for the decisions they made, because instead you hope it was for some greater good you cant see right now. I dont need an emotional outburst like we get with some other posters, and I dont always need people to pick a side, but I hope that you do hold people more accountable when you are spending your money or voting, etc.

#8 | Posted by justagirl_idaho at 2026-05-29 11:36 AM | Reply

I still really like 60 Minutes. It stands far apart from most everything else.

Not anymore. Perhaps it did once.

That was BT. Before Trumpy.

It is time for a new approach and a new chapter ... one where CBS no longer speaks truth to power. But protects it.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-29 12:24 PM | Reply

-you hope it was for some greater good you cant see right now.

I prefer to view it from the perspective that it's an employment and personnel issue and I don't have the facts.

-Not anymore. Perhaps it did once.

Do you have a criticism of the actual show? I've watched it a long time. I enjoy it like always.

I'm talking about this show....not all of CBS, BTW.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-29 02:41 PM | Reply

Do you have a criticism of the actual show? I've watched it a long time. I enjoy it like always.

Seriously?

I can no longer trust even 60 minutes. They pulled an important piece for political purposes at Bari Weiss's direction under pressure from the White House.

To appease Trumpy's ego. Now they have fired the reporter who made that very piece.

I used to he a regular viewer.

Now I rarely watch 60 minutes. So no I am not going to analyze their broadcasts for you. Suffice it to say that they their actions I have lost trust in them and that's how it works bro.

You may be fine with Bari Weiss's editorial leadership at 60 Minutes. But her focus on the "dramatic restructuring of the broadcast and allegations that she is injecting political bias and censorship into the network's reporting" are not acceptable me.

Enjoy the new and improved 60 minutes for Oligarchs that Journalists at the network have said they have reportedly held back story pitches for fear of internal repercussions, with critics arguing the network is softening its critical coverage of the White House to appease administration officials and oligarchs

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-29 02:55 PM | Reply

Sharyn Alfonsi's own words are "fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 minutes."

I'm just agreeing with her.

I'm not defending this decision and it may be exactly what she says it is.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2026-05-29 03:10 PM | Reply