Longtime ’60 Minutes’ Reporter Fired After Attacks On New Leadership

CBS News fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, just one day after he accused editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of attempting to “murder” the long-running show.  Nick Bilton, the tech journalist and filmmaker recently named the new boss of “60 Minutes,” told Pelley that he was being fired after he aggressively “hijacked” a staff meeting ...