Top 60 Minutes Correspondent Reportedly Heading For the Exit, Lawyering Up to Take on CBS Leadership

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Source: MEDIAite

May 8th, 2026, 12:32 pm


Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi will reportedly end her decade-long run at the top-rated news magazine program at the end of the month after publicly slamming what she sees as “corporate meddling” at CBS News.

Page Six Hollywood’s Tatiana Siegel reported on Friday that sources in the know say CBS will not be renewing Alfonsi’s contract, which expires at the end of the month. Siegel also added that her sources say Alfonsi has hired high-powered media lawyer Bryan Freedman – who famously scored Megyn Kelly as $69 million settlement from NBC News in 2019. Neither CBS nor Freedman did not reply to Siegel’s request for comment on her reporting.

Puck’s Dylan Byers reported earlier in the week that Alfonsi’s exit appeared all but certain after she heavily hinted during an award speech she was going to follow in the footsteps of Bill Owens – the former 60 Minutes executive producer who quit in protest of Shari Redstone’s efforts to appease the Trump administration to smooth over her sale to David Ellison.

“I always said I would follow Bill Owens over a cliff,” she joked while picking up the Ridenhour Prize last week, adding, “and I guess I finally did.”Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi will reportedly end her decade-long run at the top-rated news magazine program at the end of the month after publicly slamming what she sees as “corporate meddling” at CBS News.

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[Lovie777]

1. Thank you.......................

freedom of speech....................

one part of democracy. Civil rights, voting rights, people's rights, and more, democracy.

ABC is fighting back too.

It appears the fight is on.

[manicdem]

2. No legal options

Not sure what the legal counsel is for as I don't see any legal options. In Megan Kelly's case, she was in the middle of her contract and was paid out. For this reporter, her contract is expiring not not renewed.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. She may have had certain stipulations in her contract that we don't know about

but may have given her editorial control over her content, and then those provisions were ignored. Thus she could make a case for breach of contract.