Scoop - Doubts Grow over Future of '60 Minutes' After Firing of Scott Pelley
The show’s new leadership has fired Scott Pelley and three other correspondents while defending a broader overhaul of the highest-rated U.S. news program.
- On Tuesday, CBS News terminated veteran correspondent Scott Pelley after he publicly clashed with new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton during a staff meeting on Monday.
- CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, appointed last year by Paramount CEO David Ellison, initiated the shakeup by dismissing executive producer Tanya Simon alongside correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega late last month.
- Pelley accused Weiss of "murdering 60 Minutes" during Monday's meeting, prompting Bilton to defend his 25-year journalism career and report the outburst to leadership.
- Following the departures of Pelley, Alfonsi, Vega, and Anderson Cooper, only Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim remain as correspondents, with staff cautioning management against restricting editorial independence.
- With the program averaging 9.1 million weekly viewers, Weiss and Bilton face immense pressure to rebuild the highest-rated news show while navigating criticism regarding alleged political interference and editorial shifts.
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Longtime ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent lived many workers’ fantasy: Telling your boss off
NEW YORK — As if Scott Pelley’s years in a glamorous, globetrotting, seven-figure dream job weren’t enough, he’s pulled off one more thing to stir your envy: a cutting takedown of his boss that went loudly public.
What’s Behind the Corporate Pillaging of “60 Minutes”
Ben Schwartz By firing veteran correspondent Scott Pelley, the leaders of CBS News have elevated toadying over truth-telling. The post What’s Behind the Corporate Pillaging of “60 Minutes” appeared first on The Nation.
Scoop - Doubts grow over future of '60 Minutes' after firing of Scott Pelley
Turmoil continues at CBS News. As bosses defend the firing of longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley, many journalists are questioning the network's strategy. Newsroom shake-ups usually occur at failing programmes, but "60 Minutes" has led ratings for years, if not decades. This week's guest on FRANCE 24's media show "Scoop" is Susie Banikarim, a columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review.
Murder 60 Minutes? Yes, Please.
Rome Hartman is a recently retired 60 Minutes producer. In the spirit of the show’s self-important, solipsistic, navel gazing culture, Hartman let it rip, expressing in his own words what his former colleagues feel but can only express through vicious and poorly veiled leaks to media scribe Oliver Darcy. In a LinkedIn post (yes, seriously), Hartman explained that Scott Pelley was "damned right" to berate his boss, the newly installed 60 Minutes …
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