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Scott Pelley affirme que des responsables de CBS News ont poussé des contre-vérités après son licenciement de 60 Minutes

NEW YORK, 3 juin 2026 — CBS News a licencié Scott Pelley, correspondant de longue date de 60 Minutes, après une confrontation avec la nouvelle direction du programme, a rapporté Associated Press.

Belgium Impulse Editorial·30 June 2026·2 min read·
Établi· 2 sources primaires + 1 document officiel + 2 sources de presse indépendantes · Sources de contexte: 1

En 30 secondes

  • AP a rapporté que CBS a licencié Scott Pelley le 2 juin 2026 après une réunion tendue avec le personnel.
  • Pelley a accusé la nouvelle direction de pousser des contre-vérités, des biais et des affirmations non vérifiées, selon The Guardian.
  • La direction de CBS a déclaré que la confiance et le respect mutuel s’étaient rompus, selon le reportage d’AP sur l’appel de Weiss avec le personnel.
  • AP a rapporté que l’émission avait également perdu les correspondantes Sharyn Alfonsi et Cecilia Vega durant la même période de bouleversements.

Personne

Scott Pelley

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

Pourquoi c’est important

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

About

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.

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Organisation

CBS

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

Pourquoi c’est important

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

About

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.

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Organisation

CBS Evening News

news programme anchored by Scott Pelley from 2011 to 2017

Pourquoi c’est important

news programme anchored by Scott Pelley from 2011 to 2017

About

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.

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Organisation

60 Minutes

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

Pourquoi c’est important

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

About

An hour is a unit of time historically reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day.

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Organisation

CBS News

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

Pourquoi c’est important

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

About

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.

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Organisation

Paramount Skydance

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

Pourquoi c’est important

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

About

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

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Personne

Bari Weiss

CBS News editor-in-chief installed in 2025

Pourquoi c’est important

CBS News editor-in-chief installed in 2025

About

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.

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Personne

Nick Bilton

new 60 Minutes executive producer

Pourquoi c’est important

new 60 Minutes executive producer

About

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.

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Contexte

AP note que 60 Minutes a été diffusé pour la première fois en 1968 et a bâti sa réputation sur des interviews d’investigation et un journalisme de responsabilité. Le conflit actuel fait suite à une réinitialisation plus large de la propriété et de la direction chez CBS News après la prise de contrôle par Paramount Skydance et la nomination de Bari Weiss comme rédactrice en chef en 2025.

Context & what happens next

Impact

Regional — Pour la Belgique, l’impact direct est limité. La pertinence concerne surtout les lecteurs belges qui suivent la politique américaine, la propriété des médias et les normes internationales de l’information, ainsi que les institutions européennes à Bruxelles qui surveillent l’indépendance éditoriale dans le cadre de la résilience démocratique.

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Reported positions, summarised — not direct quotations

Scott Pelley et le personnel quittant 60 Minutes

Pelley affirme que la nouvelle direction a semé le chaos à 60 Minutes et a accusé la direction de CBS News d’avoir tenté d’ajouter des contre-vérités, des biais et des affirmations non vérifiées aux reportages. D’anciens membres du personnel et des personnes licenciées cités par AP et The Guardian présentent le différend comme une perte d’indépendance éditoriale.

La direction de CBS News sous Bari Weiss et Nick Bilton

La direction de CBS présente le licenciement comme une question de comportement et de confiance. AP a rapporté que Weiss avait dit au personnel vouloir une rédaction fondée sur la confiance et le respect, tandis que l’avis de licenciement de Bilton accusait Pelley d’hostilité lors d’une première réunion avec le personnel.

Les correspondants restants de 60 Minutes

Lesley Stahl, Jon Wertheim et Bill Whitaker ont dit au personnel qu’ils étaient en colère et endeuillés par les licenciements mais qu’ils resteraient pour l’instant, a rapporté AP. Leur position est conditionnelle : ils ont dit qu’ils resteraient si le programme peut continuer à faire du journalisme indépendant.

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Personnes

Scott Pelley

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

In this story

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

Background

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.

Organisations

CBS News

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

In this story

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

Background

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.

Organisations

60 Minutes

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

In this story

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

Background

An hour is a unit of time historically reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day.

Lieux

NEW YORK

dateline location for the report

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dateline location for the report

Background

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.

Organisations

CBS

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

In this story

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

Background

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.

Organisations

AP

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

In this story

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

Background

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.

Organisations

CBS Evening News

news programme anchored by Scott Pelley from 2011 to 2017

In this story

news programme anchored by Scott Pelley from 2011 to 2017

Background

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.

Organisations

Paramount Skydance

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

In this story

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

Background

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

Personnes

Bari Weiss

CBS News editor-in-chief installed in 2025

In this story

CBS News editor-in-chief installed in 2025

Background

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.

Personnes

Nick Bilton

new 60 Minutes executive producer

In this story

new 60 Minutes executive producer

Background

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.

Lieux

US

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

In this story

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

Background

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.

Organisations

EU institutions

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

In this story

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

Lieux

Brussels

location of EU institutions mentioned in the article

In this story

location of EU institutions mentioned in the article

Background

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.

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