Bari Weiss Appoints Nick Bilton as 60 Minutes Executive Producer, Declines to Renew Sharyn Alfonsi's Contract
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Summary
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has made significant staffing changes at 60 Minutes, including not renewing correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi's contract after her report on El Salvador's CECOT prison was pulled for insufficient deference to the Trump administration. Weiss has also appointed Nick Bilton as the new executive producer of the flagship newsmagazine program. The article is critical of Bilton's qualifications and hiring.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledCBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is making big moves.
This week, she declined to renew the contract of 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, whose report on the hellish conditions at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo prison in El Salvador was pulled off the air last December for not offering enough deference to the Trump administration
Weiss also installed Nick Bilton as the new executive producer of her network's flagship newsmagazine program.
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