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Scott Pelley fired at CBS News after blowups with Bari Weiss, new '60 Minutes' producer
Veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley was fired from the long-running CBS News show on Tuesday following a bitter clash with the network's editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton. "Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team, but this was nothing of the sort," Bilton...
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Former "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News leadership of political bias and incompetence on Sunday in his first sit-down interview since he was fired from the network last week after clashing with new management. Pelley, who spent 37 years at CBS News, said the turmoil began after CBS dismissed several senior "60 Minutes" staffers and installed journalist Nick Bilton as the program’s new executive producer under CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. During the emotional...
Scott Pelley accuses CBS News’ Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the venerable newsmagazine at a staff meeting Monday with Nick Bilton, the technology journalist tapped to oversee the show, according to a source who was in the room. Bilton, a documentary filmmaker and former tech columnist at The New York Times, told the group of “60 Minutes” staff members that Weiss “loves this institution,” the source said. Pelley interrupted Bilton and pushed back.
Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim say they’ll stay at ‘60 Minutes’
“60 Minutes” correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said Friday that they planned to stay on at the newsmagazine, capping days of turmoil for the show. “We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay,” the three wrote in a memo to their colleagues at the program, but ultimately added: “We don’t want to see ‘60 Minutes’ die.” They wrote that they were still “deeply upset by the firings” of executive producer Tanya Simon and high-ranking producer Draggan Mihailovich,...
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Scott Pelley, correspondent, 60 Minutes. | Photo by Michele Crowe / CBS News via Getty Images It should have been the final straw. The new power couple of editorial failure - Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton - had fired legendary 60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley.
Scott Pelley has heated confrontation with new '60 Minutes' boss, accuses Bari Weiss of 'murdering' show
"60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley had a heated confrontation with his new boss on Monday, scolding CBS News for "murdering" the iconic program. Last week, CBS News fired "60 Minutes" correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with the program’s executive producer Tanya Simon and other behind-the-scenes staffers. Nick Bilton, a documentary filmmaker and a former New York Times columnist, was selected by the network's polarizing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss to serve as the new EP.
Scott Pelley says CBS News is ‘on fire’ after Bari Weiss takeover and ‘60 Minutes’ bloodbath
Former "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News leadership of political bias and incompetence in his first sit-down interview since he was fired from the network last week after clashing with new management. Pelley told The New York Times' Lulu Garcia-Navarro that he hoped Paramount leadership would intervene after recent upheaval at the long-running newsmagazine. "Right now, CBS News is on fire," Pelley said.
CBS News chiefs told Scott Pelley they wanted him to stay on '60 Minutes' before tense clash with new producer
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and newly-appointed "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton made multiple overtures to the show's veteran correspondent Scott Pelley before the tense showdown he had with the incoming boss, Fox News Digital has learned. Weiss sent shockwaves across the media landscape on Thursday with the ousting of "60 Minutes" correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega as well as executive producer Tanya Simon among others, marking an editorial shift in the...
Report: Scott Pelley of '60 Minutes' accuses CBS News head Bari Weiss of 'murdering' the show
Report: Scott Pelley of '60 Minutes' accuses CBS News head Bari Weiss of 'murdering' the show Reports say Scott Pelley has accused CBS head Bari Weiss of "murdering" the hugely successful “60 Minutes.” - Bookmark In a remarkable sign of the turmoil at CBS’s top-rated “60 Minutes,” correspondent Scott Pelley said CBS News head Bari Weiss of “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job, according to reports. Pelley made his accusations in an...
CBS fires veteran correspondent Scott Pelley amid turmoil over direction of '60 Minutes'
CBS News has fired high-profile "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley amid debate about the direction of the show, which has been a mainstay of the network's television lineup for decades. "Your employment with CBS News is terminated for cause effective immediately," Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of "60 Minutes," wrote to Pelley in a letter seen by CNBC. It was not immediately clear when the letter was sent.