On the work front, things may be looking up for Scott Pelley.
The outspoken TV journalist, who was fired from his longtime position at 60 Minutes earlier this month, has signed with Creative Artists Agency, the talent agency announced in an Instagram post on Thursday, June 25.
“Scott Pelley is an experienced television journalist who most recently worked as a correspondent for 60 Minutes,” the agency said in a statement. “From 2011 to 2017, he was the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News.”
The statement continues: “Scott has received 51 National Emmy Awards, four DuPont-Columbia Silver Batons, three Peabody Awards and six Edward R. Murrow Awards. He was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2025.”
Founded in 1975, Creative Artists Agency is one of Hollywood’s leading talent agencies representing film, television and music stars. The agency’s biggest clients include Oscar-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis, Friends stars Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow, comedian Tracy Morgan and pop stars Ariana Grande and Pink.
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Pelley, 68, was abruptly fired from “60 Minutes” in early June after more than two decades on the air. His firing stemmed from an internal dispute with CBS management, USA TODAY learned June 2, leaving him without severance pay or other benefits, effective immediately.
During a heated staff meeting, Pelley accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the news institution, according to recordings obtained by The New York Times. Tensions have also escalated with new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.
In his dismissal, Bilton chastised Pelley for his “performative display of hostility,” saying he “hijacked my first staff meeting to disparage me, my qualifications and my intentions with astonishing rudeness and contempt.”
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Pelley reflected on his firing in an emotional June 7 interview on The New York Times’ The Interview podcast. The TV host said he doesn’t “feel sorry” for himself, but cares about “the people I left behind” at 60 Minutes and “this institution that I love so much.”
“The best way I can think of to describe it is it’s like your spouse was murdered,” Pelley said. “There are moments of the day when I feel good. There are times when I honestly just fall apart when I least expect it.”