veteran’60 minutes‘ Correspondent Scott Pelley’s Then life takes center stage cbs news The company fired him on Tuesday, June 2, after a meeting with management in response to his criticism of the newsmagazine’s new leadership. Paley was fired after questioning and criticizing newly appointed “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton at a staff meeting. His harsh remarks were leaked to outside news outlets, sparking a crisis within CBS, CNN reported.
Is Scott Pelley married?
Yes, Paley is married to former television reporter and advertising executive Jane Boone. Boone told the New Canaan-Darien Journal in January 2020 that Paley was studying journalism at Southern Methodist University when Boone first met her. Boone later began dating as Paley interned at the same local news station.
“At first, it was natural,” Boone told the magazine. “He liked my friends, you could tell that. He was very different from anyone I’d ever dated. When I met him, he was gliding around, always taking pictures and developing them.”
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According to People magazine, Boone began working at a rival Dallas news station after graduating from college. However, the competition did not affect their relationship. The two got married in 1983.
“When we got married, there was a story in the Dallas Morning News: ‘Rivals tie the knot,'” she recalled.
The couple have two children – son Reese and daughter Blair.
Scott Pelley quits ’60 Minutes’
At a meeting Monday, Paley accused the editor-in-chief of Barry Weiss tried to “kill” the news magazine and objected to her hiring Bilton, a former technology reporter with little TV news experience, to run the show. He reportedly refused to meet privately with Bilton and Weiss to discuss last Thursday’s shakeup of “60 Minutes” that included firing top producers and two reporters. Bilton was appointed the same day.
Paley called Weis and Bilton unfit for their jobs during a staff meeting on Monday. He even said Bilton “will never be welcome here,” according to CNN.
The meeting ended without any clear resolution on the way forward. Paley was fired soon after.
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Paley said in a statement after his firing that “60 Minutes” had “lost its DNA” as a result of last week’s firings.
“Good people are being silenced because they stand up for our viewers,” Paley wrote. “They stand for fairness against political bias; they stand for professionalism against chaos.”
