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World War Alfonsi

After going toe to toe with Bari Weiss over her “Inside CECOT” story, veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi became the face of fourth-estate resistance at 60 Minutes. But as she prepares a heroic exit, a mass exodus is unlikely to follow. After all, where’s a well-paid TV journalist to go?

Sharyn Alfonsi
Sharyn is channeling the anxieties of many CBS News veterans, as well as a broader audience of media observers who have been wringing their hands over the Ellisons’ overt prostrations toward Trump. Photo: Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Texas Conference for Women
Dylan Byers
May 1, 2026

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On Thursday, Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, was honored with the Ridenhour Courage Prize at the National Press Club in Washington. Sharyn, as you’ll recall, is the journalist who produced the “Inside CECOT” package on the Salvadoran maximum security prison that her new boss, Bari Weiss, notoriously postponed for nebulous reasons. She is also the journalist who protested Bari’s right to meddle with her reporting, and the one who called her new bosses “mouthpieces” for the Trump administration to their face. And, as I recently reported, she is also almost certain to lose her job in a few weeks.