‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Scott Pelley Fired by CBS After Clash With Management

The longtime correspondent was immediately terminated in an email.

Anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley, hosts the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's 60th Anniversary Gala in New York City on Nov. 19, 2015. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

CBS News has fired “60 Minutes” longtime correspondent Scott Pelley after a tense meeting with new Executive Producer Nick Bilton and editor-in-chief Bari Weiss on June 2.

Bilton emailed Pelley notifying him of his immediate termination following the meeting, citing Pelley’s “hostility” and “misconduct” during the meeting as reasons for the decision, according to a copy of the email obtained by The Epoch Times.