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Scott Pelley, Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Star, Signs With CAA
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Scott Pelley, Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Star, Signs With CAA

The Hollywood Reporter·Borys Kit·3 months ago
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Scott Pelley is ready for life after 60 Minutes . The broadcast journalist, whose firing in early June from the newsmagazine made national headlines, has signed with CAA for representation , The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The major talent agency will rep Pelley in all areas as the author and correspondent looks for life after CBS News, where he has worked for 37 years. Of note, Pelley’s friend and former 60 Minutes colleague Lesley Stahl is also a CAA client. Pelley had a very fiery clash with 60 Minutes ’ new executive producer, Nick Bilton, in an internal network town hall on June 1 that went public. In that meeting he took aim at Bari Weiss, CBS News’ new editor-in-chief who was hired in October of last year by Paramount mogul David Ellison. Pelley described Weiss’ early moves at the network as akin to “murdering  60 Minutes .…

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