{"id":1242,"date":"2026-06-03T06:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:35:32","slug":"scott-pelley-out-at-cbs-news-after-dramatic-clash-with-new-60-minutes-executive-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Scott Pelley Out at CBS News After Dramatic Clash With New \u201960 Minutes\u2019 Executive Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAnd then there were three.<\/p>\n<p>\nCBS News has terminated \u201c60 Minutes\u201d veteran Scott Pelley after the journalist and executives felt they could not find a way to work together following a heated public argument Monday between Pelley and Nick Bilton, the former tech journalist installed last week by editorial chief Bari Weiss. Pelley is the fourth \u201c60 Minutes\u201d reporter to leave the venerable newsmagazine since February, leaving just a trio \u2014 Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim \u2014 to handle assignments as the show prepares to get stories ready for its 59th season in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1240\">\u2018South Park\u2019 Creator Trey Parker Says \u2018We Have a President Who Thinks His Job Is to Be the Joker\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cYour antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear,\u201d Bilton said in a letter sent to Pelley Tuesday evening and reviewed by <em>Variety.<\/em> \u201cAnd I have heard you. I therefore write on behalf of CBS News to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated effective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPelley could not be reached for immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPelley had lambasted both Bilton and Weiss during a staff meeting Monday, questioning their qualifications to manage a program like \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d which is one of the most respected and most watched news programs in the U.S. And he accused Weiss of \u201cmurdering \u201960 Minutes.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWeiss had indicated last week that she wanted the program \u201cto reach new heights through deep, revelatory journalism that breaks news, exposes wrongdoing, widens public understanding and forces accountability from every institution and every center of power.\u201d Increasingly, however, it is unclear who will be left to accomplish the mission.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCBS News ousted a good chunk of the program\u2019s senior managers last week, including former executive producer Tanya Simon; executive editor Draggan Mihailovich; and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. Anderson Cooper, who has contributed to the show for nearly 20 years, announced his exit in February.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a memo to staff issued Tuesday evening, Bilton tried to assuage staffers. \u201cI know how much Scott meant to you, and I don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBilton said he would offer \u201cunyielding support for each of you, the journalism that you do and what we will do together going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1238\">Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton Lead in Early Returns for California Governor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor many, Pelley was in recent years the heart of the newsmagazine. He had turned in segments on breaking political news as well as an emotional profile on former Senator Ben Sasse and a feature on underworld caverns in Vietnam. In 2021, Pelley presented a deeply reported three-part feature on the firefighters who tried to rescue people in the burning World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, culled from tapes of conversations made available by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIndeed, Pelley has won half of all major awards earned by \u201c60 Minutes\u201d during his tenure, which began in 2004. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI would not want to run \u201960 Minutes\u2019 without Scott. He mastered the art of telling a story on \u201960 Minutes\u2019 as well as any of the greats that came before him,\u201d says Jeff Fager, who was the second executive producer of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and a former chairman of CBS News, in a message sent via text. \u201cHe is a major talent and his departure is a huge blow to the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPelley has been known to viewers in other capacities. Pelley anchored \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d between 2011 and 2017. He joined CBS News in 1989, and started his career in journalism as a copy boy at the Lubbock Avalanche Journal in Texas, near his hometown of San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cJournalism has nothing whatever to do with popularity. If we all do our jobs right, we\u2019re probably not going to be very popular with a large segment of our audience. Hopefully, that changes day to day and everybody hears something they like eventually,\u201d Pelley told <em>Variety <\/em>in 2017. \u201cBut, journalism has nothing to do with popularity and so therefore, criticism doesn\u2019t bother me too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhether Bilton will be able to make longtime \u201c60 Minutes\u201d viewers forget about Pelley this fall remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1236\">Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt Lead in Early Returns in Bizarre L.A. 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