Sharyn Alfonsi

Sharyn Alfonsi is an Emmy award winning, investigative American journalist and correspondent for 60 Minutes. She made her debut appearance on 60 Minutes on March 1, 2015. In 2019, she was awarded the prestigious DuPont-Columbia journalism award.

In 2015, Sharyn Alfonsi made her debut appearance on 60 Minutes with an investigative story about fraud after Hurricane Sandy which led to a congressional investigation and earned her a Writers Guild Award. She appeared multiple times on 60 Minutes in the 2016-2017 season, including an investigative piece on hacking phones that showed how hackers could easily access a Congressman's phone. In 2018, she was featured on the season premiere of 60 Minutes with a revealing interview with Paul McCartney, which drew more than 13 million viewers. McCartney admitted that he couldn't read music, was wildly insecure and worried about his legacy. In 2019, Sharyn Alfonsi received two Emmy awards for her reporting following the Parkland High School shooting. Alfonsi made international news in 2020 when she was the first reporter to obtain photos from inside the jail cell of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his autopsy photos which aired on 60 Minutes. In 2020, Sharyn Alfonsi and her producers won the prestigious DuPont-Columbia University of Journalism Award for their reporting from the US/Mexico border. During her acceptance speech Alfonsi dedicated the award to everyone who called her a "pain in the ass". She was also recognized in 2020 with a Gracie Award by the Alliance for Women in Media for Outstanding News/News Magazine talent. Alfonsi has reported from around the world for CBS News. Covering the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, Gaza and the war in Israel-Lebanon. Alfonsi began her career in local news at KHBS-KHOG-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1995 then WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Virginia and KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington and later WBZ-TV in Boston, MA. She was hired by Dan Rather at CBS News in 2002. She left CBS in 2008 to work for ABC News. She returned in 2011, to work for 60 Minutes Sports, which aired on Showtime.

lfonsi attended high school in McLean, Virginia. She graduated with honors from the University of Mississippi in Oxford in 1994, where she was a James Love Scholar.

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- 1 win & 7 nominations total

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60 Minutes

7.4

TV Series

Self - Contributor
Self - Correspondent
Self - Closing Message
Self - Correspondent (segment "Chess Country")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Paul McCartney")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The King of CrossFit")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Storm After the Storm")
Self
Self - Correspondent (segment "Billionaire on the Bus")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Bubba")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Children of Flint")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Hacking Your Phone")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Impact")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Plastic Plague")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Emerald Triangle")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Pact")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Ranger and the Serial Killer")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Rum War")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Sandman")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Young American")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Top of the World")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Vision of Music")
Self - Contributor (segment "The Oath Keepers")
Self - Correspondent (segment "1,000 Children")
Self - Correspondent (segment "142 Days in Gaza")
Self - Correspondent (segment "A Central Ally")
Self - Correspondent (segment "A Hole in the System")
Self - Correspondent (segment "A Quiet Invasion")
Self - Correspondent (segment "A Survivor's March")
Self - Correspondent (segment "A Web of Intrigue")
Self - Correspondent (segment "AMLO")
Self - Correspondent (segment "After the Hurricane")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Ancient Vines")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Birds Aren't Real")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Corkscrewed")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Cracking the Code")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Crisis at Pearl Harbor")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Failure to Protect")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Greta Gerwig")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Hanging On")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Hide and Seek")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Huntington, WV")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Ina Garten")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Cell")
Self - Correspondent (segment "King of the Deep")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Master of the Mind")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Nicolas Cage")
Self - Correspondent (segment "On the Border")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Only in America")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Prime Minister Marin")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Relief, N.C.")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Sanctions")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Senator Gillibrand")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Silicon Valley Scandal")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Snitches")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Suing Social Media")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Tania's Story")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Targeting Seniors")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The 50")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Church's Firm")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Domino Effect")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The House of Hermès")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Iron River")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Last Vaquitas")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Power of Grimsby")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Secretary and the Border")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Stand")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The State of Texas")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Students of Stoneman Douglas")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Surfside Mystery")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Unintended Consequences")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Wild Horses")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Wild West of Testing")
Self - Correspondent (segments "Boeing's Whistleblowers" & "Thai Elephants")
Self - Correspondent: Hanging On
Self - Correspondent: Ina Garten
Self - Correspondent: Left Behind
Self - Correspondent: The Future of Warfare
Self - Correspondent: Unintended Consequences
Self - Introduction (segment "A Quiet Invasion")
Self - Introduction (segment "A Web of Intrigue")
Self - Introduction (segment "Crisis at Pearl Harbor")
Self - Introduction (segment "Greta Gerwig")
Self - Introduction (segment "Hide and Seek")
Self - Introduction (segment "Master of the Mind")
Self - Introduction (segment "Nicolas Cage")
Self - Introduction (segment "Only in America")
Self - Introduction (segment "President Zelenskyy")
Self - Introduction (segment "Silicon Valley Scandal")
Self - Introduction (segment "Targeting Seniors")
Self - Introduction (segment "The Domino Effect")

ABC World News Tonight

5.6

TV Series

Self - Correspondent

The CBS Evening News

6.6

TV Series

Self - Correspondent

60 Minutes Sports

6.8

TV Series

Self - Host
Self - Correspondent (segment "America's Cup")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Boys of Summer")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Fantasy")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Friday Night Lights")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Gate Crasher")
Self - Correspondent (segment "GoPro Moment")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Master of Motion")
Self - Correspondent (segment "No Fall Zone")
Self - Correspondent (segment "A Survivor's March")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Back in the Game")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Full Throttle")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Harry")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Jeremy Jones")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Lindsey Vonn")
Self - Correspondent (segment "MVP")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Missy")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Over the Edge")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Team USA")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Heart of an Athlete") (segment "The Back Nine with Bubba")
Self - Correspondent (segment "The Overuse Epidemic")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Trophy Trips")
Self - Correspondent (segment "Z")