Fired 60 Minutes reporter Cecilia Vega has detailed some of the multiple times she says the new MAGA-friendly bosses at CBS News attempted to interfere in the flagship news show. Vega, 49, became the first Latina correspondent for the once-prestigious newsmagazine when she was hired in January 2023.

A reporter asked Donald Trump about his recent decision not to participate in a ’60 Minutes’ interview. Trump said CBS owed him an apology before he appeared on the show again after his contentious interview with correspondent Lesley Stahl in 2020.

CBS News chief Bari Weiss has been so busy skewing the storied network’s coverage that she’s gotten basic facts wrong—including elementary details about America’s leaders and where they’re from. Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega spilled the tea at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Conference in New Orleans Thursday,

The new head of CBS News has been immersed in politics since she started. So of course her call to hold a story will be viewed from a political lens.

Speaking to Status in an interview published Friday, former "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft acknowledged questioning the show's direction in recent years, but said he couldn't have predicted the current state of affairs. The ongoing shakeup ...

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