60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley lays into CBS leadership over cuts

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Source: The Guardian

60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley lays into CBS leadership over cuts

Pelley reportedly rebuked ousting of show’s executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents

Jeremy Barr in Washington
Mon 1 Jun 2026 17.39 BST
Last modified on Mon 1 Jun 2026 18.01 BST

Scott Pelley, a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, called out CBS News management in a heated meeting on Monday morning, attacking the network’s decision on Thursday to fire the show’s executive producer, executive editor, and two fellow correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as part of a broader overhaul of the show, sources tell the Guardian.

During a meeting of the show’s staff and Nick Bilton, its newly appointed executive producer, along with the CBS News managing editor Charles Forelle, Pelley took direct aim at Bari Weiss, the network’s controversial editor-in-chief.

“She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”

Forelle accused Pelley of being rude, and Pelley countered by saying that the network had been rude by the way it treated Tanya Simon, the show’s executive producer who was fired on Thursday.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/01/60-minutes-scott-pelley-cbs-bari-weiss-cuts