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Scott Pelley is the author of Truth Worth Telling and a 60 Minutes correspondent. He anchored the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017.
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Inside Scott Pelley Net Worth, Plus A Look at His '60 Minutes' Earnings

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By Jennifer Farrington, Scott Pelley
| Market Realist Verified
Scott Pelley has a net worth well into the millions, and that’s thanks to his '60 Minutes' salary, which reportedly peaked at $7 million at one point. American TV journalist and news anchor Scott Pelley spent a significant portion of his career with CBS, joining the network in 1989 and working his way up the ladder. He eventually landed the role of correspondent on the popular 60 Minutes and remained in that capacity for 22 years.
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Scott Pelley: CBS News Alev Alev

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By Muaz Kalaycı, Scott Pelley
| Haber Aktuel Verified
Scott Pelley, CBS News’in “yanmakta olduğunu” söyleyerek haber bölümünün genel yayın yönetmeni Bari Weiss’in görevden alınması çağrısında bulundu. 2 Haziran’da CBS tarafından işten çıkarılan “60 Minutes” programının eski sunucusu Pelley, New York Times’a verdiği ilk röportajında Weiss’in Trump yönetimi lehine “ağırlığını koyduğunu” öne sürdü. CBS News sözcüsü ise bu iddiayı reddederek haber kuruluşunda siyasi bir müdahale olmadığını savundu.
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Scott Pelley clapped back after Bari Weiss lied about his firing in a staff call

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By Scott Pelley
| Cele|bitchy
This week, Scott Pelley was dramatically fired from 60 Minutes after he called BS on CBS News’ hard-right swing. Pelley had been with 60 Minutes for decades, doing amazing work like reporting from war zones and holding politicians to account. Last year, Bari Weiss was installed as CBS News’ editor-in-chief, and Nick Bilton was newly appointed as 60 Minutes’ executive producer. Bilton and Weiss are explicitly there to damage and destroy CBS News from within, and take down 60 Minutes completely.
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