Scott Pelley fired by CBS after ‘60 Minutes’ clash with management | CNN Business

CBS News fired veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, one day after he sharply criticized the newsmagazine’s new leadership in front of the staff. CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said Wednesday that her leadership team had tried to reconcile with Pelley, but “we weren’t able to do so.” The correspondent said that wasn’t true, reaffirming that he will not go quietly from the network where he worked for 37 years. Pelley’s firing is sure to trigger even more scrutiny of Weiss and her controversial efforts to overhaul the network news division. It will also force CBS into rebuilding mode since “60 Minutes” has now lost the majority of its full-time correspondents. Last week, Weiss oversaw the firings of correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon and other senior staffers. CBS evidently wanted Pelley to stay with “60 Minutes,” but he was incensed by the firings and by the hiring of Nick Bilton, a former tech reporter with little TV experience, to run the show in Simon’s place. At a staff meeting on Monday, Pelley confronted Bilton and accused Weiss, who was not in attendance, of “murdering” “60 Min