Vega Breaks Her Silence

On Thursday evening, Cecilia Vega, the first Latina correspondent on “60 Minutes” who was inexplicably fired by CBS News boss Bari Weiss, took the stage in New Orleans at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Conference & Expo. Since being ousted from the newsmagazine in May, Vega has refrained from giving interviews about her experience, issuing only a statement in which she accused the Weiss-led management team of having tried to “insert political bias” into her stories. At the time, Vega did not elaborate on specifics.

That changed on Thursday. In an onstage interview with ABC News correspondent John Quiñones, of which Status obtained an audio recording, Vega broke her silence, describing “the stitches” from being fired as “still fresh.” Vega said she was “scared to be talking” about her experience working under Weiss, but added that “there is a lot at stake.”

“It’s not that I just lost a job. There is a lot at stake,” Vega said. “Sometimes you got to be scared and do it still.”