Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi isn’t leaving the storied news program quietly.
Alfonsi, who has clashed with CBS News top editor Bari Weiss, told “60 Minutes” employees on Wednesday that her contract expired over the weekend.
“The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over,” Alfonsi wrote in a memo, which was obtained by Business Insider.
Alfonsi said her departure followed “an intense editorial dispute” about her December story about the Trump administration’s approach to deporting migrants, specifically involving El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. Weiss delayed Alfonsi’s story, citing a need to get Trump officials to speak on the record. The story eventually ran without those comments.
Weiss defended her decision to delay the story, saying it wasn’t politically motivated.
“Repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives,” Alfonsi wrote of her future at “60 Minutes.”
A CBS News spokesperson didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Weiss has shaken up CBS News since being brought on by CEO David Ellison. She installed “CBS This Morning” cohost Tony Dokoupil as the anchor of “CBS Evening News,” among other changes.
Anderson Cooper also recently exited “60 Minutes” after nearly 20 years.
Read Alfonsi’s full memo to “60 Minutes” staffers here:
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