CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly addressed the firing of Scott Pelley in a morning call.
First reported by The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr on X, the Weiss allegedly blamed the ex-60 Minutes correspondent for his own fate, calling it “the path that he chose.”
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NEW: Bari Weiss just addressed the termination of Scott Pelley on the network’s morning call just now.
Weiss: “I know I speak for myself, and I hope I speak for everyone here when I say that I’m only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect.…
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) June 3, 2026
“I know I speak for myself, and I hope I speak for everyone here when I say that I’m only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect,” Weiss said, according to Barr’s report. “We cannot do our work without it. That foundation was broken on Monday, and despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately, we weren’t able to do so, and so we had to part ways. We did not want that to happen, but that’s the path that he chose. That unfortunate outcome does not discount from the amazing contributions and work that Scott Pelley has done for CBS and for 60 Minutes over the course of his career.”
Bari Weiss said that many of Scott Pelley’s recent stories “typify 60 Minutes, and they’re the kind of stories that Nick Bilton is going to put on the air come September in Season 59 with the amazing team that’s still there and hopefully from some new people that are going to…
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) June 3, 2026
“Bari Weiss said that many of Scott Pelley’s recent stories ‘typify 60 Minutes, and they’re the kind of stories that Nick Bilton is going to put on the air come September in Season 59 with the amazing team that’s still there and hopefully from some new people that are going to join us.t (The network has not yet said who those new people will be,)” Barr wrote in a follow-up post.
This comes after Pelley openly butted heads with new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton during a meeting on Tuesday, claiming he has “no relevant experience to helm television’s most prestigious news program.”
Bilton later issued a letter to Pelley, according to a copy obtained by Mediaite, in which he called out the “display of hostility.”
“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. Yesterday’s performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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