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Laurels and Darts: The outgoing greats of ‘60 Minutes.’
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Laurels and Darts: The outgoing greats of ‘60 Minutes.’

Columbia Journalism Review·Mike Laws·3 days ago
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . When news broke yesterday that Bari Weiss, CBS News’s editor in chief, had ousted Sharyn Alfonsi , the 60 Minutes correspondent, and Tanya Simon , the show’s executive producer, I was shocked but not surprised. In addition to Simon and Alfonsi, Weiss fired Draggan Mihailovich, the show’s executive editor; Cecilia Vega, the first Latina correspondent; Matthew Polevoy, a senior producer; and Guy Campanile, a producer. “The arrogance, cruelty, and incompetence is stunning,” Alfonsi said to me, when I reached out to her about the news.  The shake-up follows months of tension between Weiss and the 60 Minutes team , which erupted in December when Weiss abruptly pulled one of Alfonsi’s segments, a piece about a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison.…

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