Scott Pelley يقول إن مديري CBS News دفعوا بأكاذيب بعد إقالته من 60 Minutes

longtime 60 Minutes correspondent fired by CBS News; accused CBS managers of pushing falsehoods, bias and unverified assertions

Scott Cameron Pelley is an American author and broadcast journalist. Pelley is the author of the 2019 book, Truth Worth Telling, and a former correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Pelley served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017, a period in which the broadcast added viewers. Pelley served as CBS News's chief White House correspondent from 1997 to 1999.

news organisation that fired Scott Pelley and underwent an ownership and leadership reset

CBS News 24/7 is an American streaming video news channel operated by the CBS News and Paramount Streaming divisions of Paramount Skydance Corporation. Launched on November 6, 2014, it features blocks of live, rolling news coverage, original programs, as well as encore airings of CBS News television programs.

CBS television news brand where Scott Pelley was a correspondent and where the dispute centres

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dateline location for the report

New York, also called New York State, is a state located in the northeastern United States. Bordering the New England states to its east, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to its south, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario to its north, New York extends into both the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.

organisation whose leadership framed the dismissal as a breakdown of trust and workplace conduct

CBS Broadcasting Inc., doing business as the CBS Television Network,, is an American commercial broadcast television network and the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Skydance. It is one of Paramount Skydance's three flagship subsidiaries, along with Paramount Pictures and MTV.

reported details about the firing, 60 Minutes history and CBS leadership changes

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917, the AP has earned 60 of them, including 36 for photography.

news programme anchored by Scott Pelley from 2011 to 2017

CBS Weekend News is the branding used on the weekend editions of CBS Evening News, the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. Weekend editions of CBS Evening News originally debuted on February 5, 1966.

parent of CBS News that took control and installed Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief

Paramount Skydance Corporation is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate.

CBS News editor-in-chief installed in 2025

Bari Weiss is an American journalist and political commentator who has served since October 2025 as editor-in-chief of CBS News. She was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017 and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020, resigning in a widely covered public letter criticizing the paper's culture.

new 60 Minutes executive producer

Nicholas Bilton is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He was named executive producer of 60 Minutes on 28 May 2026. He has also been a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, author of a number of New York Times-bestselling books, and a screenwriter. He worked at the Times for 13 years, then at Vanity Fair for 10.

country whose politics, media ownership and television news standards are relevant to Belgian readers

The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

institutions in Brussels that track editorial independence as part of democratic resilience

location of EU institutions mentioned in the article

The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Region, and Belgium. The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European Quarter.