{"id":711545,"date":"2026-06-03T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711545\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:57:08","slug":"cbs-news-fires-veteran-journalist-scott-pelley-from-60-minutes-after-clash-with-executive-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711545\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News fires veteran journalist Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes after clash with executive producer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CBS News has confirmed that it fired veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley in the wake of a publicly disclosed clash with the show’s new executive producer, Nick Bilton.<\/p>\n

A letter sent from Bilton to Pelley, which CBC News has seen, stated the veteran correspondent had “hijacked” Bilton’s first meeting with 60 Minutes staff a day earlier.<\/p>\n

“Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you,” Bilton said in the letter, which informed Pelley that his employment is being terminated for cause “effective immediately.”<\/p>\n

The meeting in question occurred on Monday morning and details soon leaked to media.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, Pelley said CBS News head Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused Bilton of having “slender qualifications” for the job, according to reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bilton’s appointment to the top job at 60 Minutes had only been announced last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pelley had been reporting for 60 Minutes since 2004, according to a biography posted on the CBS News website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-711545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}