2026年6月2日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:42 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
在与《60分钟》新任执行制片人尼克·比尔顿在员工会议上发生紧张激烈的对峙一天后，CBS新闻解雇了资深《60分钟》记者、前《CBS晚间新闻》主播斯科特·佩利。
比尔顿于周二晚间在一封信中告知佩利解雇决定。
“昨日你在全体员工面前表现出的刻意挑衅行为——而非在文明私密的对话中解决问题——表明你无意为节目未来的成功贡献力量，也不愿以开放合作、追求进步的心态迎接我的新任期，”比尔顿在信中写道。
比尔顿在信中称佩利“劫持了我与员工的首次会议，以极其粗鲁无礼和轻蔑的态度诋毁我、我的资质以及我的工作意图”。
信中还提到，两人已于周二晚间再次私下会面，但比尔顿写道，佩利在第二次会面中明确表示他“无意”“共同寻找前进之路”。
在另一份告知《60分钟》员工CBS新闻已与佩利“分道扬镳”的内部备忘录中，比尔顿写道：“我知道斯科特对你们许多人意义重大，我并非轻率做出这个决定。上周末我曾多次尝试与他直接对话，今天下午我也试图找到共识，但斯科特并未选择这条道路。”
CBS新闻尚未就此次解雇事件置评。
据多方报道，在周一比尔顿与《60分钟》全体员工的入职介绍会上，佩利指责CBS新闻总编辑巴里·魏斯“扼杀了这个节目”，并指责比尔顿“资质平平”不足以胜任该职位。
比尔顿是上周由魏斯任命为节目执行制片人的。
专注于媒体新闻与分析的网站Status称其获取了此次会议的录音，并报道称佩利开始就上周比尔顿的前任坦尼娅·西蒙以及记者莎琳·阿尔方西和塞西莉亚·维加被解雇一事质问比尔顿。
据Status报道，佩利还指责魏斯“本人也不配担任该职位”，并表示她对佩利曾主持的《CBS晚间新闻》所做的改革“灾难性”。
该报道还称，比尔顿坚称“巴里热爱这个机构”以及“她热爱《60分钟》”，对此佩利反驳道：“她正在扼杀《60分钟》。她根本不爱这个地方。她被请来就是为了毁掉它，而她也确实正在这么做。”
一位不愿透露姓名的CBS新闻领导层知情人士告诉美联社，在上周这场撼动这个拥有57年历史的节目的人事变动发生后，魏斯和比尔顿都曾试图联系佩利，告诉他他是《60分钟》不可或缺的一员，并希望他继续留在团队中。
该人士表示，尽管他们曾尝试私下与佩利沟通，但佩利还是公开了这些指责，这让魏斯和比尔顿感到失望。
《纽约时报》也称其获取了周一会议的录音，并指出佩利在对峙过程中“新闻主播般的低沉嗓音都在颤抖”。该报还援引一位在现场的不愿具名高管的话称，魏斯原本准备到场，但“我们请她不要来”。
Status的报道提到，佩利在会议期间多次获得其他员工的掌声。报道称佩利聚焦于上周的解雇事件，称其“残酷无情”。
据报道，比尔顿回应称自己并未被吓倒。
“我做了25年的记者，斯科特，”他说。
Status援引比尔顿的话称：“我曾与像你一样极具影响力的人物坐下来交谈过。这一切都吓不倒我，明白吗？所以你别想在这群人面前吓到我。”
有关这场激烈对峙的报道发布四天前，魏斯曾在一份给员工的备忘录中表示，是时候在这个收视率最高的新闻杂志节目中采用“新方法”了。
在这份备忘录中，魏斯和CBS新闻总裁汤姆·西布罗斯基表示，他们的目标是“打造一个在21世纪蓬勃发展的节目”。
“这需要一种新的方式，”他们写道，并将该方式定义为“将《60分钟》从一小时电视广播拓展出去，深化其在CBS新闻体系中的角色，并以定义了《60分钟》最佳时期的雄心、公正和无畏精神来要求我们制作的每一档节目”。
CBS News fires longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley
June 2, 2026 / 11:42 PM EDT / CBS/AP
CBS News has fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent and former “CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley one day after he had a tense and confrontational exchange with new “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton during a staff meeting.
Bilton informed Pelley of the termination in a letter Tuesday evening.
“Yesterday’s performative display of hostility—enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation — demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress,” Bilton wrote.
Bilton wrote to Pelley that he “hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.”
In the letter, Bilton also indicated that the two men had met again privately Tuesday, but Bilton wrote that Pelley had “made clear” in that second meeting he was “not interested” in “finding a path forward together.”
In a separate memo sent to “60 Minutes” staff informing them that CBS News had “parted ways” with Pelley, Bilton wrote, “I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly. I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground. That was not the path Scott chose.”
CBS News has not commented on the firing.
In a “60 Minutes” all-staff introductory meeting Monday with Bilton, Pelley accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of “murdering the show,” and accused Bilton of having “slender qualifications” for the job, according to multiple reports.
Bilton was named the new EP by Weiss last week.
Status, which specializes in media news and analysis and said it obtained a recording of the meeting, reported that Pelley began grilling Bilton about the firings last week of Bilton’s predecessor, Tanya Simon, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.
Pelley also charged, according to Status, that Weiss herself had “no qualifications for her job,” and said the changes she had made to “CBS Evening News,” which Pelley once anchored, “have been catastrophic.”
It added that Bilton insisted that “Bari loves this institution” and “she loves ’60 Minutes’” — to which Pelley countered, “She’s murdering ’60 minutes.’ She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and she’s doing exactly that.”
A person close to CBS News leadership, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that both Weiss and Bilton had tried to reach out to Pelley late last week when the changes rocked the 57-year-old show to tell him that he was an integral part of “60 Minutes” and wanted him to remain so.
The person said Weiss and Bilton felt it was disappointing that Pelley’s accusations were being aired publicly despite efforts to engage with him privately.
The New York Times, which also reported that it had obtained a recording of Monday’s meeting, noted that Pelley’s “newscaster’s baritone” was shaking during the exchange. The newspaper also quoted an unnamed executive at the meeting as saying Weiss had been prepared to come, but “we asked her not to.”
The Status report noted that Pelley was applauded multiple times by other staffers during the meeting. It said Pelley focused on the firings last week, calling them “cruel.”
Bilton reportedly replied that he was not intimidated.
“I have been a journalist for 25 years, Scott,” he said.
Status quoted Bilton as saying, “I have sat and talked with incredibly powerful people like you have. None of it intimidates me, OK? So you are not going to intimidate me in front of this group of people.”
Reports about the contentious meeting came four days after Weiss told staff in a memo that it was time for a “new approach” at the top-rated newsmagazine.
In the memo, Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski said their goal was “building a show that thrives in the 21st century.”
“That requires a new approach,” they wrote, defining that approach as “expanding ’60 Minutes’ beyond a one-hour television broadcast, deepening its role across CBS News, and holding everything we produce to the ambition, fairness, and fearlessness that have defined ’60 Minutes’ at its best.”