{"id":448181,"date":"2026-05-27T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:53:15","slug":"cbs-ends-contract-for-60-minutes-correspondent-sharyn-alfonsi-after-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448181\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Ends Contract for \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">CBS News has not renewed the contract of 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi months after the network\u2019s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, made a last-minute decision to pull one of Alfonsi\u2019s segments before it aired. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The story focused on Venezuelans who had been sent from the US to CECOT, a maximum security prison in El Salvador with harsh conditions. Weiss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-22\/bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story-in-latest-cbs-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">yanked<\/a> the segment in December, even though it had already been publicly promoted, citing the need for more reporting. It aired a few weeks later with minimal changes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News has not renewed the contract of 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi months after the network\u2019s editor-in-chief,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28174,138,122274,156,648,23711,29280,111,139,69,228340,4965,20415,437,1430],"class_list":["post-448181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-americas","tag-business","tag-el-salvador","tag-entertainment","tag-industries","tag-latin-america","tag-new-york-times-co-a","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paramount-skydance-cl-b","tag-radio","tag-screentime","tag-tv","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}