60 Minutes journalist decries âspread of corporate meddling and editorial fearâ at CBS News
Sharyn Alfonsi, whose report on Cecot prison was pulled by Bari Weiss, admits uncertainty over her future at network The veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi expressed concern about âthe spread of corporate meddling and editorial fearâ at CBS News and her uncertainty about whether she will keep her job after she pushed back on a directive to change her December segment on Venezuelans who were sent to the Cecot prison in El Salvador. Alfonsi spoke about the incident for the first time on Thursday evening after receiving the Ridenhour prize for courage at the National Press Club in Washington. Her comments come as the Trump administration has piled pressure on US media and follow the decision by the CBS News editor, Bari Weiss, to shelve the segment on the flagship news program. Alfonsi had alleged at the time that Weiss had âspikedâ the story for political purposes, a significant accusation of journalistic impropriety. Weiss argued that the segment was delayed because it did not sufficiently include the perspective of the Trump administration. The segment was originally supposed to air on the 21 December edition of the show. It ultimately aired about a month later
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