Those who can’t do, teach.
Axed “60 Minutes” correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi will serve as “journalists in residence” at Columbia University.
The Ivy League uni said Monday that the duo — who got the boot from the prestigious show amid a sweeping shake-up under CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss — will work with students via lectures, workshops and special events.
They will each contribute a piece to the high-minded Columbia Journalism Review, too.
The move comes just two months after Pelley’s highly-publicized firing and after Alfonsi’s contract expired following her own public scrap with Weiss.
“We’re both excited and honored to welcome two journalists of this caliber to our Journalist in Residence Program,” Columbia’s J-School Dean Jelani Cobb said in a statement.
“Their distinguished track records in investigative reporting highlight the amazing opportunity our students will have to learn from them, and we look forward to having Sharyn and Scott with us this year.”
Pelley was fired for cause from CBS in early June, after he tore into “60 Minutes’” new executive producer Nick Bilton over his lack of experience during a staff meet-and-greet.
Pelley also accused Weiss — who was not present at the pow-wow — of “murdering ’60 Minutes.’”
In a memo announcing Pelley’s exit, Bilton said the journalist “hijacked” his first meeting with staffers and showed a total unwillingness to collaborate moving forward.
Pelley’s anger was sparked by upheaval days earlier, when correspondents Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon and senior producers Draggan Mihailovich, Guy Campanile and Matthew Polevoy, headed for the exit.
CBS News let Alfonsi’s contract expire in late May amid complaints from the reporter of “corporate meddling” in her work.
Alfonsi spoke out against Weiss’ last-minute decision to hold one of her pieces on El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, and Vega has since griped that management attempted to insert “political bias” into her stories.
CBS News has denied Vega’s claim, and Alfonsi’s story eventually did air in January, with few changes apart from a new introduction and postscript from the correspondent.
After his defenstration, Pelley told “The New York Times” that the network’s management “instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.”
At the time, a CBS News rep said that what occurred was the normal back-and-forth of the editing process.
As previously reported by The Post, Pelley, Alfonsi and other fired staffers are mulling launching their own version of “60 Minutes” with longtime former executive producer Bill Owens.
They are looking to raise $50 million to fund two years’ worth of in-depth and investigative news segments, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Owens – who resigned last year as “60 Minutes’” executive producer amid a dustup between CBS and President Trump over how a Kamala Harris interview was edited – is reportedly penning a scorched-earth memoir about the network.
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