Home > Creative Content > TV Shows “We did not want that to happen, but that’s the path that he chose,” the editor in chief told staffers of the correspondent’s termination CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss defended the organization’s decision to fire correspondent Scott Pelley on a Wednesday morning call with staffers, saying that Pelley broke a foundation of “trust and mutual respect” when he railed against Weiss and new executive producer Nick Bilton during a staff-wide meeting on Monday. “