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Scott Pelley thanks fans for support following CBS firing: ‘So deeply grateful’

Scott Pelley thanks fans for support following CBS firing: ‘So deeply grateful’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley has spoken out again following his firing from CBS. Pelley was fired Wednesday after reportedly accusing CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the top news program. The journalist, 68, shared a new Instagram post Saturday thanking his fans for their support in the days since he received a termination letter from Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of 60 Minutes. “To all of you who have been so kind, you are the wind in my sails. So deeply grateful,” he captioned the photo of himself out on the water. The post has amassed over 33,000 likes and hundreds of likes within hours of being shared by Pelley. Pelley served as the show’s managing editor and anchor, and had been a 60 Minutes correspondent for 22 years. He spent 37 years at CBS News, saying in an initial statement that he leaves with “a heart brimming with gratitude.” He was sent a termination letter by 60 Minutes’ new executive producer, Nick Bilton, whom the journalist said had “slender” qualifications …

Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

Published by Daniella Wilson

LOSER: 60 Minutes: Scott Pelley arguably deserved to be canned for that rant against his new 60 Minutes boss Nick Bilton. It doesn’t matter if your job is on Wall Street or at a Wendy’s. Try telling your manager at a staff meeting they have “slender qualifications” and “will never be welcomed here” and the person who hired them is “murdering” the company and see how well that goes for you. Reportedly earning $5 million per year, Pelley had f-you money and that’s essentially what he told the new boss. But also: 60 Minutes has become a total mess, and that’s squarely on Paramount chief David Ellison and CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss. Leaks, drama, quitting, firings, pulling a topical segment about the Trump administration at the last minute, allegations of pressure to insert factual errors or political bias, and, now, bringing on print veteran and documentarian Bilton — a fine journalist, but somebody Ellison and Weiss had to know would spark more internal uproar as he lacks TV experience. 60 Minutes isn’t …

What Happened With Scott Pelley and Bari Weiss?

What Happened With Scott Pelley and Bari Weiss?

Published by Daniella Wilson

The last several weeks have been like few others in American broadcast journalism. At 60 Minutes, the most popular TV news show of the era, Taylor Sheridan-level drama has set in. Nine or ten million weekly viewers on the linear network alone, yet executive producer Tanya Simon was fired. Correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi were fired. And just when it seemed like new EP Nick Bilton — a magazine and documentary journalist brought in by newish CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss to replace Simon — might quiet the waters at an introductory staff meeting Monday, he faced a major public undressing from correspondent Scott Pelley. (The word “murder” — of the show — was invoked.) Two days later, Pelley was fired. That prompted a CBS News anchor to pay tribute to him on the air Wednesday, like a fallen solider. What to make of the chaos? What game are Weiss and Bilton playing? Was Pelley going for martyrdom or just angry? And what will the deep-dive newsmagazine look like when it comes back in the fall? The Hollywood Reporter senior editors Alex …

Tony Dokoupil’s Tribute to Fired Scott Pelley on CBS Evening News

Tony Dokoupil’s Tribute to Fired Scott Pelley on CBS Evening News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Tony Dokoupil shared some heartfelt words on CBS Evening News about his former colleague Scott Pelley after the veteran journalist was fired on Tuesday. During Wednesday’s show, Dokoupil — who was appointed anchor of the evening newscast by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss at the start of her tenure last year — took a moment to praise Pelley’s career. “When I started at CBS, Scott Pelley was in this very chair, and still doing a dozen stories a year for 60 Minutes. And amid all of that, still meeting every new correspondent to share his view of the mission here,” he said. “He believed freedom of the press, to quote [James] Madison, was ‘the right that guaranteed all the others.’ And the stakes are always that high in that, if you’d made it to CBS News, you were among the best in the world. He worked every single day to live up to that standard.” A compilation of some of Pelley’s work at CBS over the years, after he joined the network in 1989, was then played. The video …

CBS fires Scott Pelley after criticism of network leadership

CBS fires Scott Pelley after criticism of network leadership

Published by Sam Flores

CBS News has ousted Scott Pelley, the veteran journalist and “60 Minutes” correspondent, after he issued a scathing rebuke of network leadership during a staff meeting Monday. Pelley called the program’s top boss unqualified to lead it and accused the outlet’s executive editor of trying to “murder” the show he has worked on for nearly… Source link

Scott Pelley Fires Back at Incompetent and Unprofessional CBS News

Scott Pelley Fires Back at Incompetent and Unprofessional CBS News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Scott Pelley is not looking to go quietly. The veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, and one time CBS Evening News anchor, hit back at CBS News for firing him on Tuesday. In a lengthy statement, Pelley accused CBS News management, led by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, of “incompetence and unprofessionalism” and made more damning accusations including that he was “instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.” Incoming 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton fired Pelley on Tuesday, the day after a fiery meeting with the show’s staff, that saw Pelley call out Bilton’s lack of TV news experience and upbraid the management under Weiss. Pelley notably said that Weiss is “murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place; she was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.” “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 …

Scott Pelley accuses CBS News’ Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’

Scott Pelley accuses CBS News’ Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’

Published by Sam Flores

“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 an audio recording and a source who was in the room. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Bilton, a documentary filmmaker and former tech columnist at The New York Times, told “60 Minutes” staff members that Weiss “loves this institution,” the source said. Pelley interrupted Bilton and pushed back. “She is murdering ‘60 Minutes.’ She does not love this place,” Pelley told Bilton, according to the audio recording. “She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.” The meeting was intended to be Bilton’s introduction to the “60 Minutes” team. In another tense exchange, the source said, Pelley said Weiss has “no qualifications for her job” and told Bilton he has “slender qualifications” for his new role as executive producer of “60 Minutes,” the leading newsmagazine on television. …

Scott Pelley of ’60 Minutes’ says CBS News bosses ‘murdering’ program

Scott Pelley of ’60 Minutes’ says CBS News bosses ‘murdering’ program

Published by Sam Flores

Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of “60 Minutes,” received a hostile welcome Monday from the CBS News program’s most respected correspondent, Scott Pelley, as the staff is still reeling over last week’s firings. In the first staff meeting since Bilton was named last week, Pelley accused CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the country’s most-watched news program, which recently finished the TV season with a 9% ratings increase. Recordings of the meeting were circulated to journalists. “She is murdering ‘60 Minutes,’” Pelley said. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.” Pelley also attacked the credentials of Bilton, a former New York Times tech reporter and documentary filmmaker, who, like Weiss, has no previous experience running a TV news operation. Bilton was named to replace Tanya Simon on Thursday, an unexpected move that also came with the firings of correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. The moves were made by Weiss, who has targeted the prestigious program for changes since …

Zac Brown and Kendra Scott reportedly marry in Santorini

Zac Brown and Kendra Scott reportedly marry in Santorini

Published by Sam Flores

Forget days stuck in colder weather: Zac Brown and Kendra Scott got married Monday in a private destination wedding in sunny Greece, according to reports Wednesday. The ceremony was held at a resort in Santorini, according to TMZ, which first reported the wedding. Brown’s son and four daughters and Scott’s three sons, all from previous marriages, were on hand for the festivities, the site said. People confirmed the information. A representative for the couple did not respond immediately Wednesday to The Times’ request for confirmation and comment. After dating for several months, according to People, the 47-year-old lead singer and co-founder of the Zac Brown Band went public as a couple with Scott, a jewelry designer and lifestyle entrepreneur, at the 2025 American Music Awards in Las Vegas, walking the red carpet together almost exactly a year ago. Two months later, they were engaged. “They were set up by a mutual friend, and are totally in love,” a source told People last July. “They are head over heels and have become inseparable.” It is Brown’s …

Andrew Scott on Sparring With Brendan Fraser and Crashing The Comeback

Andrew Scott on Sparring With Brendan Fraser and Crashing The Comeback

Published by Daniella Wilson

One of the first film roles Andrew Scott ever played, nearly 30 years ago, was “Soldier on the Beach” in Saving Private Ryan. He appeared in the Steven Spielberg drama’s legendary opening sequence, set during the Normandy Invasion at Omaha Beach on D-Day. “I had one line or something, and Tom Hanks rolled over me, and I was very happy to be there,” Scott recalls with a laugh. “It was an extraordinary thing — it was my first time being on a set of that enormity, and I feel very proud that I got to be a tiny part of that. It’s a sequence that’s gone down in movie history.”  Scott has built an impressive career since, between his Olivier-winning stage work and acclaimed performances across film and TV. But it’s something of a full-circle moment to see him back in a D-Day-set film, only this time as the main attraction: In Pressure (in theaters Friday), Scott portrays James Stagg, a meteorologist in the Royal Air Force called in to assess weather patterns for the …