Scott Pelley is reportedly preparing for the post-CBS phase of his career — signing with powerhouse talent agency CAA just weeks after his dramatic firing from “60 Minutes.”
CAA will represent Pelley “in all areas” as the longtime correspondent explores opportunities following his 37-year run at CBS News, according to the New York Times.
The agency also represents “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl. CAA confirmed the Times report when reached by The Post.
The move comes as another central figure in the network’s recent upheaval, former “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens, is also plotting his next chapter.
Breaker Media recently reported that Owens is shopping a memoir about his decades-long career at CBS News through CAA literary agent Sloan Harris, raising the prospect of dueling insider accounts from two of the biggest names caught up in the network’s civil war.
Pelley’s departure capped weeks of extraordinary turmoil at CBS News.
The veteran correspondent was fired after publicly confronting newly installed “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton during a staff meeting, accusing CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the iconic newsmagazine and claiming she had been “brought in to kill it.”
Bilton responded the following day, accusing Pelley of having “hijacked” his first staff meeting and informing him that his employment was being terminated “for cause.”
Since leaving CBS News, Pelley has repeatedly accused management of undermining the show’s editorial independence.
In a farewell statement posted after his dismissal, Pelley alleged that CBS News executives had attempted to inject “falsehoods and bias” into reporting and argued that Paramount’s new ownership was weakening “60 Minutes” while “apparently” seeking “to curry favor with the Trump administration.”
Owens voiced similar concerns.
In the memoir proposal, Owens describes Paramount’s settlement of President Trump’s lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris as “perhaps the worst legal strategy ever employed by the worst-run media company in the history of America.”
Owens, who resigned last year after saying corporate interference had made it impossible for him to preserve the editorial independence of “60 Minutes,” also reportedly accuses Paramount of creating an internal “spy ring” that routinely circulated scripts and story plans to senior executives.
The Post has sought comment from Pelley, CAA, CBS News and Paramount.
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