Student journalist Santiago Campos, a senior from Washington, D.C.’s District of Columbia International School, wowed the News Emmys crowd on Wednesday night by taking on CBS News as he accepted this year’s Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship — named after the legendary CBS journo. As former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley — who presented the […]

And then there were three. CBS News has terminated “60 Minutes” veteran Scott Pelley after the journalist and executives felt they could not find a way to work together following a heated public argument Monday between Pelley and Nick Bilton, the former tech journalist installed last week by editorial chief Bari Weiss. Pelley is the […]

Hours after Scott Pelley made headlines for speaking out against firings and other changes at 60 Minutes, the show’s former executive producer offered words of praise for the correspondent. Bill Owens told a New York Press Club event that Pelley “can smell fraud a mile away.” Owens, receiving the New York Press Club’s Gabe Pressman […]

As the fallout continues over Scott Pelley’s firing from 60 Minutes and CBS News, his former colleague at the newsmagazine, Steve Kroft, spoke his mind about the turmoil at the show and the division. “This is journalistic interference,” he told Geoff Bennett during an interview Wednesday on PBS NewsHour. “It makes no business sense whatsoever. […]

Fired 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley hasn’t quoted poet John Masefield in any of his scathing statements since embattled CBS News chief Bari Weiss and new newsmagazine EP Nick Bilton canned him for rejecting their regime earlier this week. However, the ex-Evening News anchor sure captured the spirit of the past British Poet Laureate’s famous […]

Sharyn Alfonsi, a veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who has worked on the venerable newsmagazine since 2015, said Wednesday she believes CBS News has removed her from the program after she raised issues about the way Bari Weiss, the news division’s editor in chief, handled an Alfonsi report about how the U.S. deported Venezuelan men to […]

Cecilia Vega, one of the “60 Minutes” correspondents ousted in Thursday’s reorganization of the CBS News magazine, says she’s worried about the future of the program and where it may be headed under the management installed by parent company Paramount Skydance. “I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at ’60 Minutes’ and the stories […]

“The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable,” Scott Pelley said late Tuesday just hours after being fired from CBS News after almost 40 years at the network. “The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well,” the former CBS Evening News anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent added in […]

EXCLUSIVE: “I have been in this business a long time, and I have never seen anything this bad,” a CBS News insider told Deadline on Wednesday amid the fallout of recent firings at 60 Minutes and accusations of political interference at the Bari Weiss-ruled division. After a verbal dust-up this week between 60 Minutes correspondent […]

In his first interview since his firing from 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley said that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and the network’s leadership are engaged in “subtle political bias” to influence the show, while he said that the brass “don’t know what they’re doing.” In an interview with The New York Times podcaster […]

Hold the stopwatch! The new boss at “60 Minutes” believes the venerable newsmagazine ought to be more prevalent in popular culture and the news cycle, rather than merely holding forth in its usual place on Sunday evenings on CBS. “The show is on the air one day, one night, one hour a week, and to […]

UPDATED 6:37 PM: Scott Pelley was fired from 60 Minutes and CBS News on Tuesday evening, days after a verbal confrontation with the show’s new executive producer in which the veteran correspondent blasted the news division leadership. “Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard […]