Former ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter Cecilia Vega Details Claims of Meddling

The former “60 Minutes” correspondent Cecilia Vega on Thursday described pressure from executives at CBS News to insert what she said was political bias into three segments that aired this year.

Ms. Vega was among three of the show’s correspondents to be fired this spring and is now the third to go public with claims of executives’ interfering in the show’s reporting. The former correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi made similar accusations.

“I’ve gone head-to-head with editors for 25 years in this business,” Ms. Vega, 49, said Thursday, according to a recording of an interview she did with John Quiñones of ABC News at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference. She added, “But never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics.”

None of the changes Ms. Vega said executives had requested were incorporated into the shows.

“60 Minutes,” the country’s top-rated TV news program, was roiled by the reporters’ accusations and by a shake-up this spring. Bari Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief and a former opinion journalist, oversaw the firing of the show’s leadership team and the three correspondents. Ms. Weiss then hired a tech journalist and documentary filmmaker with no broadcast experience as its new head.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/business/media/cecilia-vega-60-minutes.html