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- **Posted:** 2026-06-03T02:07:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hollywood Reporter (@hollywoodreporter) — https://gondola.cc/hollywoodreporter

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In a stunning development, veteran #CBSNews #60Minutes correspondent #ScottPelley has been fired by the network after clashing with the show’s new executive producer, #NickBilton, in a fiery meeting with the show’s staff Monday.⁠
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Bilton informed Pelley of his termination Tuesday evening, writing in a note that his employment was “terminated for cause effective immediately.” Pelley has been at CBS News for decades, and previously served as the anchor of the CBS Evening News.⁠
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In the meeting on June 1 with new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton, Pelley said that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is “murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place; she was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”⁠
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He also said that Bilton, a veteran technology journalist who previously worked at The New York Times and Vanity Fair, had “slender” qualifications for what is arguably the most important EP job in television news.⁠
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“You should hear this from me first. We have parted ways with Scott Pelley,” Bilton wrote in a note to 60 Minutes staff Tuesday. “I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly. I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground. That was not the path Scott chose.”⁠
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In the note to Pelley, Bilton wrote: “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.”⁠
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For more on what's happening at '60 Minutes,' click the link in bio.

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