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Ousted ‘60 Minutes’ stars Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi reveal their next gigs

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Ousted ‘60 Minutes’ stars Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi reveal their next gigs See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Axed “60 Minutes” correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi will serve as “journalists in residence” at Columbia University.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 16 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “They will each contribute a piece to the high-minded Columbia Journalism Review, too.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that both Pelley and Alfonsi will contribute articles to the Columbia Journalism Review.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 60 Minutes's 56th season aired from September 17, 2023, to May 19, 2024. Full-time hosts include Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley and Bill Whitaker. Reporters include Sharyn Alfonsi, Anderson Cooper, Cecili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes_season_56
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bari Weiss ( BARR-ee WYSSE; born March 25, 1984) is an American journalist and political commentator who has served since October 2025 as editor-in-chief of CBS News. She was an op-ed and book review …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tanya Simon is an American television producer. She was the executive producer of the news magazine program 60 Minutes, the first woman to hold the position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Simon
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Claim 2: “After his defenstration, Pelley told “The New York Times” that the network’s management “instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.””
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Claim 3: “CBS News has denied Vega’s claim, and Alfonsi’s story eventually did air in January, with few changes apart from a new introduction and postscript from the correspondent.”
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Claim 4: “Pelley’s anger was sparked by upheaval days earlier, when correspondents Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon and senior producers Draggan Mihailovich, Guy Campanile and Matthew Polevoy, headed for the exit.”
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Multiple sources (NY Post, AOL) list the specific group of people who left CBS News, including Alfonsi, Vega, Simon, Mihailovich, Campanile, and Polevoy.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega and Tanya Simon (left to right) have all been ousted from "60 Minutes." Photo by Michele Crowe/CBS News via Getty Images.Weiss also pushed out Simon's No. 2, senior execut…
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/60-minutes-e…
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web search NEUTRAL — Correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega were victims of CBS' mass firings.@60Minutes/youtube. "Oh God, this was awful," Stahl said. "They fired everybody who was around Tanya. We don't know why…
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/worst-experience-ever-lesl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sharyn Alfonsi (far left) and Cecilia Vega (second from right) were both fired in late May, and Scott Pelley (third from right) was fired on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Anderson Cooper (far right) chose not t…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lesley-stahl-reveals-the-momen…
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Claim 5: “Pelley also accused Weiss — who was not present at the pow-wow — of “murdering ’60 Minutes.'””
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Multiple independent sources, including BBC News and various news aggregators, report that Pelley accused Bari Weiss of 'murdering 60 Minutes'.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Scott Pelley accuses CBS News’ Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/scott-pelley-accuses-cbs-ne…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — CBS News’ Scott Pelley Accuses Boss Bari Weiss Of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes'
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/cbs-news-scott-pelley-accus…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — CBS News’ Scott Pelley Accuses Boss Bari Weiss Of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/cbs-news-scott-pelley-accus…
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Claim 6: “Alfonsi spoke out against Weiss’ last-minute decision to hold one of her pieces on El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, and Vega has since griped that management attempted to insert “political bias” into her stories.”
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Claim 7: “Owens – who resigned last year as “60 Minutes’” executive producer amid a dustup between CBS and President Trump over how a Kamala Harris interview was edited – is reportedly penning a scorched-earth memoir about the network.”
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Claim 8: “As previously reported by The Post, Pelley, Alfonsi and other fired staffers are mulling launching their own version of “60 Minutes” with longtime former executive producer Bill Owens.”
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Claim 9: “In a memo announcing Pelley’s exit, Bilton said the journalist “hijacked” his first meeting with staffers and showed a total unwillingness to collaborate moving forward.”
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Reports indicate that Nick Bilton sent a termination letter/memo stating that Pelley 'hijacked' a staff meeting and refused to collaborate.
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web search NEUTRAL — 60 Minutesexecutive producer Nick Bilton scolded his staff in an email about the influx of leaks to the press — shortly before his message was shared with a reporter.
https://www.aol.com/articles/60-minutes-producer-scolds-staf…
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web search NEUTRAL — Veteran anchor Scott Pelley was fired by CBS News on Tuesday, a day after his explosive meeting with new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton. Bilton announced Pelley’s termination in a letter ad…
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/breaking-new-60-minutes-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Veteran CBS journalist Scott Pelley has been fired from 60 Minutes after clashing with new executive producer Nick Bilton, who sent a scathing termination letter detailing an alleged 'hijacked' staff …
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/scott-pelley…
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Claim 10: “The move comes just two months after Pelley’s highly-publicized firing and after Alfonsi’s contract expired following her own public scrap with Weiss.”
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Web search results confirm Pelley was fired in June and Alfonsi's contract expired following a dispute with Bari Weiss, coinciding with the timeline of the Columbia announcement.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bari Weiss ( BARR-ee WYSSE; born March 25, 1984) is an American journalist and political commentator who has served since October 2025 as editor-in-chief of CBS News. She was an op-ed and book review …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Cameron Pelley (born July 28, 1957) is an American author and broadcast journalist. Pelley is the author of the 2019 book, Truth Worth Telling, and a former correspondent for the CBS News magazi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The CBS Evening News (titled as CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil since January 3, 2026) is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Evening_News
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Claim 11: “The Ivy League uni said Monday that the duo — who got the boot from the prestigious show amid a sweeping shake-up under CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss — will work with students via lectures, workshops and special events.”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that Bari Weiss has served as the editor-in-chief of CBS News since October 2025. This is further corroborated by multiple cross-references including the NY Post.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bari Weiss ( BARR-ee WYSSE; born March 25, 1984) is an American journalist and political commentator who has served since October 2025 as editor-in-chief of CBS News. She was an op-ed and book review …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CBS News is the news division of the American television broadcaster CBS headquartered in New York City. Along with ABC News and NBC News, it has long been among the big three broadcast news networks …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Free Press (The FP), formerly Common Sense, is an American media company based in New York City. Founded by opinion writer Bari Weiss and her spouse Nellie Bowles, the company started as a newslet…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Press_(CBS_News)
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Claim 12: “CBS News let Alfonsi’s contract expire in late May amid complaints from the reporter of “corporate meddling” in her work.”
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Multiple sources, including The Guardian and Wikipedia, confirm that Sharyn Alfonsi's contract expired in May and that she had complained about 'corporate meddling'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sharyn Alfonsi confirms contract expiration after decrying network over ‘the spread of corporate meddling’ last month.During a speech in Washington late last month, Alfonsi went even further, decrying…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/27/60-minutes-sha…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sharyn Elizabeth Alfonsi (born June 3, 1972) is an American investigative journalist who served as correspondent for 60 Minutes from March 2015 until May 2026. She made her debut appearance on the sho…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharyn_Alfonsi
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web search NEUTRAL — CBS News declined to renew its contract with the “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by the news di…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/business/media/cbs-sharyn…
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Claim 13: “Pelley was fired for cause from CBS in early June, after he tore into “60 Minutes'” new executive producer Nick Bilton over his lack of experience during a staff meet-and-greet.”
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Multiple sources report that Scott Pelley was fired from '60 Minutes' in early June following a confrontation/heated exchange with new executive producer Nick Bilton.
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web search NEUTRAL — Scott Cameron Pelley is an American author and broadcast journalist. Pelley is the author of the 2019 book, Truth Worth Telling, and a former correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley
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web search NEUTRAL — On June 2, Scott Pelley was fired from CBS' 60 Minutes after nearly four decades with the network.
https://www.aol.com/articles/why-scott-pelley-fired-cbs-1705…
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web search NEUTRAL — CBS News veteran correspondent Scott Pelley has been fired from “60 Minutes” following a heated exchange with the show’s new executive producer.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/60-minutes-scott-pe…
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Claim 14: “They are looking to raise $50 million to fund two years’ worth of in-depth and investigative news segments, sources with knowledge of the matter said.”
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Claim 15: “Axed “60 Minutes” correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi will serve as “journalists in residence” at Columbia University.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi have been appointed as Journalists in Residence at Columbia Journalism School for the 2026-27 academic year.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bari Weiss ( BARR-ee WYSSE; born March 25, 1984) is an American journalist and political commentator who has served since October 2025 as editor-in-chief of CBS News. She was an op-ed and book review …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tanya Simon is an American television producer. She was the executive producer of the news magazine program 60 Minutes, the first woman to hold the position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Simon
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 60 Minutes' 57th season aired from September 15, 2024, to May 18, 2025. Full-time hosts included Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley and Bill Whitaker. Reporters include Sharyn Alfonsi, Anderson Cooper, Cecili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes_season_57
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Claim 16: ““We’re both excited and honored to welcome two journalists of this caliber to our Journalist in Residence Program,” Columbia’s J-School Dean Jelani Cobb said in a statement.”
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Wikipedia and official Columbia University sources confirm that Jelani Cobb is the Dean of the Columbia Journalism School.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wayne Alix Ian Frederick (born June 17, 1971) is a Trinidadian-American scholar, surgeon, and university administrator. He is currently the interim president of Howard University in Washington D.C. an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_A._I._Frederick
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Jelani Cobb (born William Anthony Cobb; August 21, 1969) is an American writer, author, educator, and dean of the Columbia Journalism School. Before joining Columbia University as the Ira A. L…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelani_Cobb
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is the journalism school of Columbia University, located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United Sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Graduate_S…
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