Following his ousting from 60 Minutes and CBS News earlier this month, Scott Pelley has found new representation.
Deadline can confirm the 51x Emmy-winning news anchor has signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) just weeks after he was fired over an alleged confrontation with new executive producer Nick Bilton under Bari Weiss’ reign.
While many current and former 60 Minutes correspondents are represented by UTA, Pelley joins former colleague Lesley Stahl in the CAA family.
CAA also represents 60 Minutes vets Bill Owens, Cecilia Vega, and Tanya Simon — all who have been forced out of the show over the last year. The agency also reps Anderson Cooper. The CNN anchor poignantly stepped away from 60 Minutes after many years at the conclusion of the show’s most recent season.
More than 35 years into his CBS career, Pelley was fired on June 2 over a verbal confrontation in which he put the new leadership on blast. In a letter to Pelley, Bilton said they could not “find a path forward together” following the confrontation, which he called a “performative display of hostility.”
In his first interview since the termination, Pelley told The New York Times that the new leadership doesn’t “know what they’re doing.”
“We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television,” said Pelley. “They don’t know what they’re doing. And there’s a subtle political bias that I’ve never seen at 60 Minutes before, or at CBS News before. So that is my hope: a return to sanity. We can save this. It’s possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News is on fire.
