Bari Weiss has ripped _60 Minutes_ to shreds—and earned a venomous reputation amongst the show’s various contributors and producers as a result.

Change at the investigative weekly program has been rapid and corrosive. Late last month, Weiss simultaneously fired executive producer Tanya Simon, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi (who criticized Weiss’s decision to delay her report on the notoriously…

_60 Minutes_ correspondent Cecelia Vega was fired while she was in the midst of a feature on U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese—perhaps the most prominent institutional voice against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

“Cecilia Vega and her team were indeed working on a report for CBS examining the impact of the U.S.…

Staffers have taken to calling it “Black Thursday.” On May 28, a half-dozen senior producers and correspondents at “60 Minutes,” the longest-running and highest-rated news program in the country, were unceremoniously shown the door. Correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as well as executive producer Tanya Simon and executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, were among them. The firings were…

Bari Weiss will be in charge of editorial at far-left CNN after Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros-Discovery is complete, a report says.

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Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalist professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that it’s critical that journalists and media organizations stop pretending that there is a neutral way to cover the news that expresses no underlying values.…

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Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon, the host of Right Now on The New Republic. Great guest today. Kathy Roberts Ford is a professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she’s been a frequent guest.…

No room this summer on David Geffen’s mega-yacht, Rising Sun? Oligarchs and moguls needn’t worry, there’s always July in Sun Valley – Allen & Co.’s annual leadership retreat for media and tech barons in Idaho. The “billionaire summer camp” has long been the scene for trust falls and starry panels, while the real gamesmanship of […]

Seeking: Business executive to help manage one of nation’s best-known news brands. Must enjoy long hours, a fluid work schedule — and an editorial chief with predilection for generating controversy. Paramount Skydance has been on the hunt for a business executive who can work with Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, who […]

Bill Maher made clear where he stands on the 60 Minutes shakeup before his panelists could get a word in. During the overtime segment of Real Time with Bill Maher on June 6, 2026, he cut straight to it: “What does the panel think of the recent shakeup at 60 Minutes? I’m for it.” He also admitted he never particularly liked Pelley and does not view him as a national treasure.

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Scott Pelley is going scorched earth on former boss Bari Weiss.

Pelley, a longtime _60 Minutes_ correspondent and CBS employee since 1989, was fired last week after months of discord between him and Weiss, the founder of The Free Press, who was controversially appointed CBS News editor in chief in October.

In Pelley’s resignation letter, he wrote that new management “instructed me to inject…

In his first interview since his departure from 60 Minutes, veteran broadcaster Scott Pelley alleged that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and the network’s leadership exhibited “subtle political bias.” Pelley also expanded on his comment from last week about the firing during his recent interview. Scott Pelley says CBS boss asked him to […]

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FCC boss Brendan Carr went after journalist Scott Pelley for claiming in his recent New York Times profile that it “hadn’t occurred” to him that he would be fired from “60 Minutes.” “One of the reasons why trust in media is so low is because many legacy journalists are completely out of touch,” Carr wrote […]

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Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley suggested in an interview with The New York Times that CBS News parent Paramount Skydance remove Bari Weiss as the leader of the news division, alleging in an emotional exchange that “television’s not her thing” and that her inexperience with the medium and her belief that mainstream media is […]

Unemployment looks good on former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, who took to Instagram on Saturday to thank his fans for their support after the program’s new executive producer, Nick Bilton, fired him after an explosive confrontation. “To all of you who have been so kind, you are the wind in my sails. So deeply […]

The three remaining fill-time correspondents on 60 Minutes — Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim — said on Friday that they will remain with the show. “We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement of the existing power structure,” they wrote in a joint memo on Friday. “That is simply categorically […]

Everyone is up in arms, and rightly so, about what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS News in general and 60 Minutes in particular. The firing of Scott Pelley will reverberate in American journalism history as a symbolic execution of the single most groundbreaking and successful news program in the annals of U.S. broadcast television. Two of the program’s other prominent on-air correspondents were fired,…

Today on The BradCast: One of the convicted J6ers tells me he wants nothing to do with any payments from Donald Trump‘s so-called “anti-weaponization” slush fund, whether it’s merely dead or really most sincerely dead…or not really dead at all. [Audio to full show follows below this summary.] What Trump’s corrupted Dept. of Justice describes […]

CBS News is spending a lot more cash to fund Bari Weiss’s _60 Minutes_ takeover.

Weiss’s new pick to run the venerated newsmagazine, Nick Bilton, is making far more than his predecessor. The British-born contrarian was installed as _60 Minutes_ ’ new executive producer last week, and is reportedly salaried at $2.5 million—a million more than veteran broadcast journalist Tanya Simon, who ran the…

“CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil paid tribute to Scott Pelley after the former “60 Minutes” correspondent was fired on Tuesday following an explosive clash with the show’s new executive producer, Nick Bilton. “When I started at CBS, Scott Pelley was in this very chair, and still doing a dozen stories a year for ‘60 […]

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. […]

EXCLUSIVE: “I have been in this business a long time, and I have never seen anything this bad,” a CBS News insider told Deadline today 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 Scott […]

PBS NewsHour reporter Geoff Bennett teased an excerpt from his interview with Steve Croft, in which the “60 Minutes” legend said the direction of the historic news program under the leadership of CBS News boss Bari Weiss was “disastrous.” “This is journalistic interference,” Kroft said. “It makes no business sense whatsoever. It’s the highest rated […]

Ousted _60 Minutes_ correspondent Scott Pelley disputed the words of CBS editor in chief Bari Weiss, claiming that what she told the network’s employees about his firing in an editorial call Wednesday was “not true.”

In a written statement first obtained by _The New York Times_ ’ Ben Mulllin, Pelley said, “In the meeting on Tuesday in which I was effectively fired, there was no effort of any…

Correspondents at “60 Minutes” in past years have tried to win an interesting challenge: Could they leave the show for a summer vacation with one story already in the can? Doing so now is no longer a game. In the wake of a massive ouster of the top staff of the venerable newsmagazine, serious questions […]

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss lost her initial battle against the staff of _60 Minutes._ That was back in December, when she blocked the airing of a segment that highlighted the inhumane treatment at an El Salvador prison of Venezuelan men who had been deported from the United States and sent there. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent who reported the segment, wrote an email blasting Weiss’s…

CBS News editor Bari Weiss has gone on the record to defend Scott Pelley's controversial firing from 60 Minutes.

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Scott Pelley responded to Bari Weiss’ characterization of a final meeting he had with her and other top CBS News executives, saying that she and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski were “openly hostile from the start.” Earlier on Wednesday, Weiss addressed Pelley’s termination on a staff call, contending that after they tried to engage with […]

Bari Weiss, editor in chief of CBS News, on a staff call addressed the termination Scott Pelley, a longtime presence at the news outlet who was ousted from “60 Minutes” Tuesday after he engaged in a tenacious confrontation with the new executive producer of the newsmagazine. Weiss is facing the risk of a full-scale revolt […]

Freshly fired _60 Minutes_ correspondent Scott Pelley sounded off on CBS on Tuesday, accusing them of forcing him to report from a politically biased perspective. Pelley was fired after an explosive meeting in which he criticized CBS head Bari Weiss and newly hired executive producer Nick Bilton.

“Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air…