CBS News leadership has been firing '60 Minutes' correspondents. Here's who's gone and who's left.

Stahl, 84, has racked up accolades in her five decades at CBS News, including 13 Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award.

She's interviewed world leaders like Donald Trump, former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, plus business leaders like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

Stahl has historically focused on politics, investigations, and foreign reporting.

Whitaker joined CBS News in 1984 and has been with "60 Minutes" for over a decade. In that span, he's won Emmys and a Peabody Award.

He's covered major domestic and foreign stories, from the war in Ukraine to the US opioid crisis.

Wertheim has covered a range of topics in his nearly 10 years at "60 Minutes," with a focus on sports, culture, and the Middle East.

He's done reporting on how countries like Saudi Arabia are investing in entertainment, a practice that critics call "sportswashing."

Cooper decided to leave his role at "60 Minutes" in February after 20 years, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. The veteran newscaster will continue to host "Anderson Cooper 360°" on CNN, which he's done for the last 25 years.

"Being a correspondent at 60 Minutes has been one of the great honors of my career," Cooper said in a statement at the time.

A CBS spokesperson told Business Insider in February that the network was "grateful to him for dedicating so much of his life to this broadcast, and understand the importance of spending more time with family," adding that "60 Minutes will be here if he ever wants to return."

Cooper focused his reporting on major news events, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alfonsi left "60 Minutes" last week after more than a decade, in what she said 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," Alfonsi said in an exit memo, which was obtained by Business Insider.

In her memo, Alfonsi cited "an intense editorial dispute" with Weiss about a segment spotlighting the Trump administration's migrant deportation tactics, specifically with the CECOT prison in El Salvador. Weiss held Alfonsi's story, seeking additional commentary from the Trump administration, though it later aired with minimal changes.

"Repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives," Alfonsi wrote in the memo.

Alfonsi covered war in the Middle East, including Gaza, and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden.

Vega said in an exit memo that her departure from "60 Minutes" last week was due to "censorship, both imposed and self-driven."

"I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at 60 Minutes and the stories that air every Sunday. But I very much fear what comes next for and the future of the legendary broadcast," Vega wrote.

Vega said that she and her colleagues had "experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories" from leaders at CBS News, a characterization that the network denies.

CBS News brought on Vega in 2023, where she often covered US politics and immigration.

Pelley made headlines for vocally challenging Nick Bilton, the new executive producer at "60 Minutes," and calling out Weiss.

The veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent, who'd been with CBS for over three decades, reportedly said that Weiss was "murdering" "60 Minutes."

Bilton fired Pelley on Tuesday night, saying that the correspondent's "antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear."

"Despite yesterday's misconduct, I had hoped that in sitting down with you today we could find a path forward together," Bilton wrote to Pelley. "You made clear that you are not interested in such a path."

Pelley said in a statement after his dismissal that CBS leaders had directed him to "inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story."

Weiss told staffers in a Wednesday morning meeting that CBS News "had to part ways" with Pelley after his comments earlier in the week.

"Despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately, we weren't able to do so, and so we had to part ways. We did not want that to happen, but that's the path that he chose," Weiss said on the call.

Pelley disputed that characterization in a statement to The New York Times, saying, "Bari Weiss knows what she said is not true."

"In the meeting on Tuesday, in which I was effectively fired, there was no effort of any kind to 'find a way back,' as Weiss said in the editorial meeting," Pelley said in his statement. "At no point did anyone in the Tuesday meeting suggest that there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution."