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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says Bari Weiss pressured her to report on events that ‘never happened’

Cecilia Vega said CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pressured her to include “misinformation” and “political bias” in several news segments.

Former CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent Cecilia Vega, one of several prominent journalists fired from the network’s signature broadcast this spring, said she was pressured by the news division’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, and other executives to include misinformation and political bias in reporting that aired this year. 

Vega’s account of Weiss interfering with independent reporting is similar to those of two other veteran “60 Minutes” correspondents, Scott Pelley and  Sharyn Alfonsi, who were fired after David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, appointed Weiss to her position last year. Alfonsi’s contract expired after she criticized Weiss for pulling her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons from the air. Pelley was fired a day after he reportedly excoriated Weiss and the show’s new executive producer, Nick Bilton, over what he called their lack of journalistic qualifications in an early-June staff meeting. 

Cecilia Vega of 60 Minutes says she felt pressure from CBS to add ‘political bias’

Vega made remarks to ABC’s John Quiñones at National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference

Cecilia Vega, the former 60 Minutes correspondent, said on Thursday she felt pressured by CBS News’s executives to incorporate “political bias” into segments for the broadcast program.

Vega made the remarks during an onstage interview with John Quiñones, the ABC News correspondent, at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ annual conference in New Orleans. Her comments were first reported by Status.

“I’ve gone head-to-head with editors for 25 years in this business,” Vega said, according to the New York Times. “But never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics.”

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