60 Minutes Firings: What We Know About Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega & Scott Pelley

As if the cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert wasn’t enough, CBS is going through yet another shakeup behind the scenes.This time, it’s with 60 Minutes, the long-running news magazine program that viewers have been watching for nearly six decades.

With firings and departures underway, multiple journalists and correspondents have spoken out about the changes taking place ever since new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss took over.Anderson Cooper appeared in his final broadcast with the program on May 17, 2026.

Choosing to leave his position to focus on his job at CNN and raising his children, the veteran reporter bid farewell to his CBS role.“Things can always evolve and change, and I think that’s awesome, and things should evolve and change, but I hope the core of what 60 Minutes is always remains,” he said before leaving.

Just days later, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega had their 60 Minutes contracts gutted.Here are the staff members who were fired from 60 Minutes in 2026.

Cecilia Vega Cecilia Vega, the first Latina correspondent to be on 60 Minutes, announced on May 29 that she was fired by CBS.Her contract was supposed to run until March 2027.

“I was fired today,” Vega wrote in a statement, before accusing CBS of trying to control her team’s reporting.“In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories.

Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions.” Vega continued, “I held the line and refused to incorporate suggestions that offend the conscience, a phrase I borrow from a colleague who has also fought to keep questionable editorial suggestions away from the facts.I know from many conversations with colleagues that many producing teams and correspondents working on the show today have had to fight to maintain editorial independence with regularity.

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