CBS News declined to renew its contract with the “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by the news division’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.

Ms. Alfonsi’s deal expired on Saturday. She said in a phone interview that her agent’s inquiries with CBS News over the past several weeks had been met with silence.

“It sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom,” Ms. Alfonsi said. “I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.”

Ms. Alfonsi remains employed at CBS, but with no contract in place, she said she had no expectation of returning to “60 Minutes.” “I’m not resigning,” she said. “If they want me gone because I did my job, they’ll have to fire me.”....

Ms. Alfonsi has contributed to “60 Minutes” since 2015. She was at the center of a firestorm in December after Ms. Weiss, who was appointed by CBS’s new owner, David Ellison, pulled a 13-minute segment that Ms. Alfonsi had reported on harsh conditions faced by Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration.

At the time, Ms. Alfonsi called the decision “political” in an email to colleagues. Ms. Weiss rejected that charge, saying that the reporting “was not ready”; she had suggested several last-minute editorial changes, including that the reporters seek an interview with Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s immigration policy.

The segment eventually aired in its entirety one month later, with additional comments from the Trump administration tacked on. Ms. Alfonsi continued to appear on “60 Minutes” through the end of this season, which concluded on May 17.