{"id":790,"date":"2026-06-04T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/cbs-evening-news-host-tony-dokoupil-pays-tribute-on-air-to-scott-pelley-after-colleagues-firing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:39:48","slug":"cbs-evening-news-host-tony-dokoupil-pays-tribute-on-air-to-scott-pelley-after-colleagues-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/cbs-evening-news-host-tony-dokoupil-pays-tribute-on-air-to-scott-pelley-after-colleagues-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018CBS Night Information\u2019 Host Tony Dokoupil Pays Tribute On Air to Scott Pelley After Colleague\u2019s Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"


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CBS Night Information host Tony Dokoupil paid tribute on air to Scott Pelley following his former colleague\u2019s controversial firing from 60 Minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I began at CBS, Scott Pelley was on this very chair, and nonetheless doing a dozen tales a 12 months for 60 Minutes. And amid all of that, nonetheless assembly each new correspondent to share his view of the mission right here,\u201d Dokoupil, 45, instructed viewers within the second of two CBS Night Information segments on Pelley\u2019s firing on Wednesday, June 3. \u201c[Pelley] believed freedom of the press, to cite [James Madison], was \u2018the appropriate that assured all of the others.\u2019 And the stakes are all the time that top in that, for those who\u2019d made it to CBS Information, you had been among the many greatest on the earth. He labored each single day to reside as much as that commonplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dokoupil regarded again on Pelley\u2019s 37 years at CBS, reminiscing in regards to the \u201cpresidential interviews\u201d with each chief from George W. Bush to Donald Trump and \u201cgreater than 50 Emmy awards alongside the way in which.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Pelley] was, in some methods, a person from one other period, and that\u2019s not a knock. He didn\u2019t watch the competitors, he stated, as a result of he knew who he was,\u201d Dokoupil went on. \u201cA journalist who valued reality in any respect prices. And all the time saved alive the reminiscence of colleagues killed within the subject. A reminder that his chosen line of labor might be a harmful one. However Pelley additionally made one main break from the previous. He modified the indicators round right here. Below the CBS Night Information emblem, the place Scott Pelley\u2019s personal identify would have been, he as an alternative wrote the CBS Night Information with All of Us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Tony Dokoupil in September 2024.<\/span> Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Photographs<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dokoupil closed the section by saying, \u201cProperly, Scott, from all of us, thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The glowing tribute to Pelley, 68 \u2014 who anchored the CBS Night Information from 2011 to 2017 \u2014 was in sharp distinction to different statements from CBS Information within the wake of Pelley\u2019s firing earlier this week.<\/p>\n

A tumultuous week at CBS Information kicked off at a 60 Minutes employees assembly the place new govt producer Nick Bilton launched himself to his staff on Monday, June 1. Per a number of studies, Pelley took subject with Bilton\u2019s {qualifications} through the assembly and accused CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of \u201cmurdering\u201d 60 Minutes by inserting political bias.<\/p>\n

A leaked memo from Bilton, 49, introduced that Pelley was fired the next day. In that memo, Bilton wrote to Pelley that his \u201cantipathy to the way forward for the present has come by means of loud and clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI subsequently write on behalf of CBS Information, Inc. to tell you that your employment with CBS is terminated for trigger efficient instantly,\u201d Bilton confirmed.<\/p>\n

Following his firing, Pelley broke his silence by accusing the administration of CBS of casting apart the information division\u2019s legacy \u201cto curry a second of favor with the Trump administration.\u201d (Skydance Media, led by Trump ally David Ellison, the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, bought CBS mother or father firm Paramount final 12 months.)<\/p>\n

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