Will Scott Pelley quit or be fired from 60 Minutes before Fri after his rant at CBS staff meeting?
55% of users predicted NO — the community missed this one. 31 predictions cast.
Scott Pelley, a veteran correspondent who had been with "60 Minutes" for more than a decade, was fired by the program's newly appointed executive producer Nick Bilton on June 2, 2026, one day after Pelley publicly criticized the show's new leadership during an all-staff meeting. Paramount CEO David Ellison signed off on the termination.
At the staff meeting, Pelley questioned Bilton's qualifications to lead the program and accused incoming editor in chief Bari Weiss of working to undermine the newsmagazine. Bilton's termination letter stated that Pelley had "hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt." Pelley's firing was effective immediately, and he issued a public statement in response.
The dismissal accelerated a broader wave of departures at "60 Minutes." In the preceding days, correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with executive producer Tanya Simon and other senior staffers, had also been let go following Weiss's installation as editor in chief. The 55 percent of predictors who said Pelley would not depart proved incorrect—he was fired before the resolution date.