Who are Scott Pelley’s children? CBS 60 Minutes’ co-correspondent’s daughter followed in his footsteps

American reporter and author Scott Pelley, best known as the co-correspondent of CBS News’ 60 Minutes, has been fired by the network after a clash with the newly appointed executive editor Nick Bilton on Monday morning.

According to The Guardian, Pelley, 68, condemned editor-in-chief Bari Weiss during the said meeting, who joined in October and has since terminated several employees, including the executive producer and the executive editor. In fact, just last week, two correspondents, Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi, were fired without cause.

“She’s murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that,” Scott reportedly said to the brass.

Scott Pelley shares two children with his wife of 43 years, Jane Boone. Their daughter, Blair Pelley, is a producer, while their son Reece Pelley is a human rights attorney.

In the wake of his fiery remark, Pelley was asked to meet Bari Weiss and other executives on Tuesday, who all concluded that his behavior was “inappropriate.” Subsequently, Nick Bilton wrote a letter to Scott Pelley terminating his contract with CBS. While he called Scott a “60 Minutes veteran,” he also rebuked him and stated:

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt… Despite yesterday’s misconduct, I had hoped that in sitting down with you today, we could find a path forward together.”

Bilton continued:

“You made clear you are not interested in such a path. Your antipathy towards the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you. I therefore write on behalf of CBS News, Inc. (‘CBS’) to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause effective immediately.”

According to The Guardian reports, Scott Pelley told his fellow 60 Minutes staffer that he “expected” to be fired after the week’s events.

All you need to know about Scott Pelley’s wife and two children

Scott Pelley first met Jane Boone at Southern Methodist University in Texas in the 1970s, where she was studying journalism. She joined a local news channel as an intern, where Pelley was already working as a reporter. They soon began dating.

In a January 2010 interview with New Canaan-Darien Magazine,

“In the beginning, it was just very natural. He liked my friends, and you can kind of tell that way. He was very different from any of the guys I ever dated. When I met him, he was hang-gliding and always taking pictures and developing them.”

After graduating from college, Boone joined a rival news station in Dallas as a TV reporter. However, it didn’t get in the way of their romance. Instead, their relationship became stronger. They ended up tying the knot in 1983.

“When we got married, it was a story in the Dallas Morning News: ‘Competitors Tie the Knot,’” Boone jokingly recalled.

Eventually, she became an advertising executive, while he joined CBS News as a correspondent in 1989, before landing his gig on 60 Minutes II in 1999, before moving on to the current spin-off version in 2004. Over the decades, Scott has also served as CBS’ Chief White House correspondent and anchor/managing editor for the Evening News between 2011 and 2017.

Scott Pelley and Jane Boone are parents to Blair and Reece.

Today, Blair is based in New York City and is a freelance producer. Her last employer was Type.Set.Brooklyn, where she worked as an associate producer for the development team for five months in 2025.

Before that, Scott Pelley’s only daughter was an archival producer at Discovery Inc. and worked on the documentary, Who is Luigi Mangione?. At Law & Crime, Blair Pelley served as an archival associate producer for the true-crime show CrimeFeed.

Blair attended Clemson University and studied a B.A. in political science and government, before graduating summa cum laude in 2017. For three months in 2016, she interned at CBS News and was assigned to the Face the Nation show. The following year, her internship was for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at CBS Television Studios. She also spent time at CBS All Access as a production assistant.

Scott Pelley’s daughter was also a peer mentor at the International Rescue Committee and an associate producer at Comedy Central and at Debmar-Mercury, LLC., where she worked on shows like Tha God's Honest Truth with Charlamagne tha God, Hell of a Week with Charlamagne tha God, and The Michael Rapaport Show.

Blair’s credits also include serving as the casting associate producer for the PBS Documentary Series, American Portrait, and associate producer for the YouTube Originals weekly show, RELEASED. For a year, she was the executive assistant to Brookside Artist Management’s CEO and President.

Like her younger sister, Reece Pelley also studied a B.A. in political science and government at Clemson University and graduated in 2014. Thereafter, he joined Fordham University School of Law and obtained his juris doctor degree (magna cum laude) in 2019.

That same year, he received the James E. Tolman Fellowship in International Human Rights and served as the foreign policy legal fellow at Human Rights First.

At law school, Reece Pelley was the Crowley Scholar at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice and also interned with the Open Society Justice Initiative and ACLU.

Scott Pelley’s only son is a licensed lawyer with the State Bar of New York. During the early years of his career, he served as a law clerk for Judge Maria Araujo Kahn at the Connecticut Supreme Court (2020-2021) and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2023-2024). Reece was also the law clerk for John F. Keenan, a United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York (2021-2022).

Since 2024, Reece Pelley has been an associate at Quinn Emanuel’s New York law firm.

With Scott Pelley’s departure, 60 Minutes now has only three full-time correspondents, Bill Whitaker, L. Jon Wertheim, and Lesley Stahl, as it awaits the premiere of the 59th season this fall.

It is noteworthy that in December 2025, Pelley addressed a Washington crowd while accepting an award on behalf of legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, about the future of 60 Minutes amid the change in leadership. CBS’ parent company Paramount was acquired by David Ellison’s Skydance last year, and Bari Weiss was appointed as the editor-in-chief in October.

“It’s early yet, but what I can tell you is we are doing the same kinds of stories with the same kind of rigor, and we have experienced no corporate interference of any kind,” Pelley said back then.

However, only a couple of weeks later, his ex-colleague Sharyn Alfonsi went viral for accusing Weiss of pulling her CECOT Prison story from the air for “political” reasons.

Former 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager once called Pelley “the heart and soul” of the show. At the time of his termination in 2018, he added:

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“He’s the present-day Mike Wallace of the program. I wouldn’t want to be in charge without him.”

Likewise, longtime producer Rome Hartman, who retired last year, called out Bilton and Weiss for firing Scott Pelley. He also called Scott “among the all-time greats” of the network and 60 Minutes.

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