CBS News fires Scott Pelley after 60 Minutes clash (opens in new tab)

CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he confronted newly appointed executive producer Nick Bilton during a staff meeting over recent leadership changes at the program. Bilton told Pelley in a termination letter that his employment was “terminated for cause effective immediately,” and wrote that Pelley had shown “antipathy to the future of the show” and had “hijacked” Bilton’s first staff meeting. Pelley, a former “CBS Evening News” anchor who...