Hasselbeck returned to guest-cohost "The View" this year, but will now make her way to CBS for a guest role at the network under the divisive direction of Bari Weiss.

"Everything she's touched has turned to s---. Everything she's touched has gone colossally wrong," one said.

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…

John Oliver is weighing in on the controversy surrounding Scott Pelley's dismissal from CBS News. During a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, the HBO host mocked the circumstances surrounding Pelley's firing from 60 Minutes, joking that the veteran journalist's real offense was being "too cool."

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Reports that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss could soon gain editorial oversight of CNN have triggered a familiar reaction from large segments of the media industry. Almost immediately, critics began portraying Weiss as a conservative operative, a Trump ally, or evidence that CNN could be headed toward a right-wing transformation if Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition […]

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After Scott Pelley was fired by CBS, the former 60 Minutes anchor suggested in an interview with The New York Times that it came as a complete surprise. Now, FCC Chair Brendan Carr is weighing in on social media, calling Scott Pelley and other legacy journalists "out of touch."

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Paramount CEO David Ellison recently vowed to “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl that the newsmagazine would have “editorial independence,” according to three people familiar with the matter, the latest sign the media conglomerate is trying to tamp down tensions around the venerable program in the wake of a recent ouster of its top producers and […]

If Scott Pelley weren’t real, those of us committed to destroying the corporate media would have to invent him.

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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 […]

Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert Van Winkle, appeared on Fox News’ _Saturday in America_ to defend his decision to perform at the Freedom 250 concert series, even as a wave of other artists have pulled out. Seated across from host Kayleigh McEnany, the rapper said he is “super proud” to be part of the celebration marking the 250th birthday of the United States. He could not understand why…

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…

Mr. Pelley, who was at CBS News for 37 years, including as a White House correspondent and a “60 Minutes” correspondent, spoke in his first extended interview since he was fired.

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 […]

Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits down for an exclusive interview with the now-former CBS News correspondent.

The tech journalist and filmmaker was a surprise choice to lead a famously combative newsroom. His first week was chaos.

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,…

Nick Bilton said he had consulted with the program’s remaining correspondents: Lesley Stahl, Jon Wertheim and Bill Whitaker. All three were deliberating whether to stay with the show, two people said.

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…

Maybe they will stay? The new executive producer of “60 Minutes” vowed in a memo Thursday to uphold the CBS News property’s commitment to pursue stories “without fear or favor” and to not be “instructed by the ownership of the company” on sensitive reports, even as many at the Paramount Skydance news outlet continue to […]

Paramount is disputing a report published by a gossip blog and repeated by a newspaper that claims "60 Minutes" is weighing a role for podcaster Joe Rogan.—

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Joe Rogan’s name has been floated around 60 Minutes at the same time CBS News is cutting loose some of the program’s most recognizable figures, but there is still no confirmed evidence that the podcaster is being lined up to replace Anderson Cooper. The confirmed story: Anderson Cooper has left 60 Minutes after nearly two […]

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The president of the Writers Guild of America, East weighed in on the firing of 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley and others at the newsmagazine, arguing that the moves show that top brass show “profound contempt for the journalism profession.” Tom Fontana wrote in a letter to members, “In the past year, CBS has enacted […]

The head of the Writers Guild of America East union blasted Paramount-owned CBS News for recent “cruel and needless layoffs,” its firing of “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley and the shutdown of CBS News Radio. In a message to members Thursday morning, WGA East president Tom Fontana decried the “assaults on CBS News, an institution […]

“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 […]

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…

In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.