June 26, 2026, 4:35 p.m. ET
Issues could also be trying up for Scott Pelley on the job entrance.
The outspoken TV journalist, who was ousted from his longtime submit at “60 Minutes” earlier this month, has signed a cope with Artistic Artists Company, the expertise agency introduced in an Instagram submit Thursday, June 25.
“Scott Pelley is a veteran broadcast journalist, most lately serving as a correspondent for ’60 Minutes,'” the company wrote in an announcement. “From 2011 to 2017, he served because the anchor and managing editor of ‘CBS Night Information.'”
The assertion continued: “Scott has received 51 nationwide Emmy Awards, 4 duPont-Columbia Silver Batons, three Peabody Awards and 6 Edward R. Murrow Awards. In 2025, he was honored with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.”
Based in 1975, Artistic Artists Company is likely one of the prime expertise businesses in Hollywood, providing illustration to A-listers throughout movie, TV and music. A few of the company’s largest purchasers embody Oscar-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis, “Mates” stars Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow, comic Tracy Morgan and pop stars Ariana Grande and P!nk.
Pelley, 68, was abruptly fired from “60 Minutes” in early June after greater than 20 years on the air. His termination stemmed from an inner dispute with CBS management, USA TODAY discovered on June 2, which left him with out severance or different advantages efficient instantly.
Throughout a heated workers assembly, Pelley accused CBS Information Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the information establishment, in keeping with a recording obtained by The New York Occasions. Tensions additionally flared with new “60 Minutes” government producer Nick Bilton.
In a termination be aware, Bilton chastised Pelley for his “performative show of hostility,” saying that he “hijacked my first assembly with workers to disparage me, my {qualifications} and my intentions with exceptional incivility and contempt.”
Pelley mirrored on his firing in an emotional June 7 interview on The New York Occasions’ “The Interview” podcast. The broadcaster stated he does not really feel “sorry” for himself however cares concerning the “folks that I left behind” at “60 Minutes” and about “this establishment that I really like a lot.”
“One of the best factor that I can think about when it comes to describing it’s that it is like your partner was murdered,” Pelley stated. “There’s some moments of the day I really feel nice. There’s some moments of the day that I simply, frankly, disintegrate, after I least count on it.”
Contributing: Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY
