Minutes’ correspondent says Bari Weiss needs to take her job ‘more seriously’ amid CECOT story fiasco - ‘It’s not a part-time job,” Scott Pelley said during a Monday afternoon meeting.

While accepting an award, "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley said his program has not faced any corporate interference from the new Paramount owners.

CBS News anchor Scott Pelley fired off in frustration against the network's new boss, Bari Weiss, over her intervention to spike a long-developing story that was going to cover the brutal conditions in the Salvadoran CECOT megaprison,

60 Minutes host Scott Pelley has shared his verdict on the new owners of CBS News following concerns that the network’s reporting would be influenced by the corporate merger between Skydance and Paramount.

A pioneering figure in network news has slammed CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss for spiking a 60 Minutes segment at the eleventh hour. Katie Couric, 68, said the decision to cut a report on CECOT—the inhumane El Salvador prison where Venezuelan migrants were flown without due process this spring—was a “disgrace.

Pelley, a Walter Cronkite Award honoree, said that they have been able to get stories on the air despite concerns.

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss decided to shelve a planned “60 Minutes” story titled “Inside CECOT,” creating an uproar inside CBS, but the report has reached a worldwide audience anyway.