Posted on 05/28/2026 2:29:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK (AP) — Saying it was time for a new approach and a new chapter, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has replaced the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” naming outsider Nick Bilton, a longtime technology journalist and documentarian, as the show’s new leader.
Executive producer Tanya Simon will be leaving about a year after being named to the job following 30 years at the venerable Sunday evening program. The moves cap a period of turmoil for the venerable newsmagazine that premiered in 1968 and is known for its ticking stopwatch.
In a memo to staff Thursday, Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski said their goal was “building a show that thrives in the 21st century.”
“That requires a new approach,” Weiss and Cibrowski wrote, defining it as “expanding ‘60 Minutes’ beyond a one-hour television broadcast, deepening its role across CBS News, and holding everything we produce to the ambition, fairness, and fearlessness that have defined ‘60 Minutes’ at its best.”
Bilton, they said, “embodies the energy and ambition that animated the founders of the show. We cannot imagine a better fit.” Bilton is also a former New York Times technology columnist.
Others let go as well
Also let go, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on anonymity: correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi, whose segment about Trump administration deportees in a Salvadoran prison was abruptly pulled by Weiss, running a month later; and Cecilia Vega.
Sweeping actions like those announced Thursday had been widely expected from Weiss, founder of the Free Press website. Since she was hired in October by CBS parent company Paramount Global’s new management, she has fast become a headline-maker and polarizing figure in journalism.
In his own lengthy memo to staff, Bilton, who comes to his new post without traditional...
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What about Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, and the sodomite?
Leslie Stahl must be a 100. Or at least her hair style isv(meow)
Carry on Bari.
Carry on.👍💯
For those out there employed in electronic journalism, 60 Minutes could be a prime gig for the right person(s).
Someone with a modicum of impartiality, someone who’ll ask tough questions and someone who doesn’t mind rocking the Left and Right side of the boat.
60 Minutes, for a long time now, has served as just another journalistic arm of the Democrat Party. A change is well overdue!
Lesley Stahl and her Trump interview were perfect examples of legacy media ignoring validated facts regarding the Biden laptop incident. She insisted Trump was wrong about the Biden’s transgressions and wrote it off as Russian dis-information. I wonder if she has ever recanted.
A new approach?
How about reporting the news instead of fabricating it?
Not holding breath.
Constant Trump basing gets old and you can hear that on CNN or MSNBC at any moment of any day. There’s no reason to tune into 60 Minutes.
That's what 60 Minutes was. An hour containing three stories, often featuring people and situations which otherwise might not make national headlines. It sometimes focused on aspects of our culture, bringing to bear the show's signature documentarian style.
And for decades, it worked. The typical edition of 60 Minutes was practically guaranteed to feature at least one story that would intrigue and draw a viewer in.
"Tell me a story." And that's what 60 Minutes did, better than most.
Then around the early Nineties, the show began taking a turn obviously to the left. I think the definitive benchmark for that was the interview with Bill and Hillary Clinton. There was no hiding that it was a piece tailor-made to elevate Clinton's candidacy. There was also a story about Rush Limbaugh by Steve Kroft that could be said painted conservatives as intellectual primitives (it certainly did note portray Rush in a good light).
The spiral toward liberalism only got worse. And soon the stories about real people and circumstances that the public might otherwise have never heard about became a reliable liberal mouthpiece for partisan ideology. Whatever unique and truly interesting stories the show once covered became a rarity.
The journalistic integrity of 60 Minutes deteriorated. Oh sure, it might command the ratings on Sunday nights. But the heartmeat of 60 Minutes as an institution is gone and has been for a very long time now.
Changing its leadership can't possibly be a bad thing. Maybe new people in charge will alter course and make 60 Minutes something it once did wonderfully and might could still do again: Tell us stories.
I see the word “venerable” is no longer defined by its classical definition.
I gave up cable 9 years ago and haven’t missed it. I don’t watch any of the main networks anymore either as to news and opinion, or even local news.
The computer and Youtube are the Amin sources now and I can get a unfiltered amount of raw news data to digest and think about.
It is an amazing contrast to see what I can get and what is not reported on by the MSM and Cable News Networks.
Hate Trump will die after November when the Democrat-leftists and humbled in the election. They will see it does no good and only appeals to a small minority of cat women and transexuals.
Did you mean Don Hewitt?
Depends upon the venerator.
The last time I watched “60 Minutes” was sometime in the 1990s when they interviewed Kathleen Willey. Her husband had just died, and she approached Slick to ask for help to find a job and he put the moves on her. She was appalled and wanted to explain what happened.
Alright get to work on exposing true dirt on the Democrats.
There needs to be a reckoning for the deliberate dishonesty and destruction of the last thread of trust the public might have had for all media. Own it. Fix it. Or piss off.
Neither is “classical”.
I did. I get my Hewitt confused sometimes LOL
Hugh Hewitt was the subject of my first post on FR.
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