CBS has declined to renew the contract of “60 Minutes” journalist Sharyn Alfonsi. The move comes six months after the news division’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, abruptly pulled Alfonsi’s report about the Trump administration’s use of the notorious Salvadoran prison CECOT to torture and detain immigrants. At the time, Alfonsi protested, saying that CBS killed her segment for “political” reasons, calling it “corporate censorship.” Weiss had requested several editorial changes and asked the team to request an interview with Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff behind the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The report eventually aired a month later. Alfonsi wrote in a parting statement, “In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like 'modernization' and 'restructuring' to explain away my departure. Don’t be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.”

Meanwhile, a student journalist who won an academic award funded by CBS News condemned creeping censorship at the network on Wednesday evening as he accepted a prize at the 47th annual News Emmy Awards ceremony. Santiago Campos is a high school senior from Washington, D.C., and winner of the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship named after the longtime “60 Minutes” investigative journalist.

Santiago Campos: “As corporate elites take hold over the very pipes through which our information flows, journalism that serves people becomes increasingly harder to come by, yet ever more crucial. And what the people want is the truth. So, if at any time you hesitate to utter the word 'genocide' or remain silent in the face of blatant lies, remember to ask yourself, 'Who is this for?'”