Veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley has been fired from CBS News, the day after he reportedly excoriated the show’s new executive producer as well as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss in a staff meeting.

The venerated show’s newly named executive producer, Nick Bilton, announced the network “parted ways” with Pelley in a Tuesday note to staff obtained by MS NOW.

“I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly,” Bilton wrote. “I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground. That was not the path Scott chose.”

Pelley’s firing deepens a seismic shift for the network, which has seen an exodus of journalists since Weiss became editor-in-chief last year. Pelley worked for the show since 2004 and won more than 50 Emmy Awards, according to his bio on the network’s website.

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