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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Scott Pelley fired after confrontation with new boss

Nick Bilton, the show’s new top producer, said Pelley “hijacked” a staff meeting to disparage him.

By Aaron Pellish

CBS News veteran correspondent Scott Pelley has been fired from “60 Minutes” following a heated exchange with the show’s new executive producer.

Nick Bilton, who took over as the new head of the award-winning TV news magazine under the leadership of Bari Weiss, informed Pelley he is being terminated “for cause” on Tuesday, according to a letter obtained by POLITICO.

The letter detailed a tense meeting on Monday in which Bilton accused Pelley of demonstrating a “display of hostility” in a confrontation over the ouster of staff members and the direction of the program.

The New York Times reported Pelley accused Weiss, the CBS News editor, of “murdering” the show and challenged Bilton’s qualifications.

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” Bilton wrote in his letter to Pelley.

Bilton notified “60 Minutes” staff that Pelley had been fired in an email sent Tuesday and obtained by POLITICO.

“I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly,” Bilton wrote. “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.”

Pelley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

His dismissal is the latest disruption at CBS News since Weiss was appointed to lead the newsroom by Paramount CEO David Ellison last year.

She temporarily held back a piece by Sharyn Alfonsi about the treatment of prisoners in the maximum security prison in El Salvador that housed Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. — drawing accusations that she interfered with the story to appease the Trump administration.

Weiss dismissed the previous executive producer Tanya Simon, along with Alfonsi and correspondent Cecilia Vega on Thursday and appointed Bilton, who previously directed documentaries.