Fired Scott Pelley Calls Out 60 Minutes Leadership
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Correspondents at "60 Minutes" in past years have tried to win an interesting challenge: Could they leave the show for a summer vacation with one story already in the can? Doing so now is no longer a game.
Nick Bilton was named the executive producer of "60 Minutes" by Bari Weiss on May 28 as several others departed the longtime show. Breaking down all the staffing changes.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss carried out a bloodbath at “60 Minutes” on Thursday, ousting executive producer Tanya Simon along with correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega as she installed former New York Times columnist and filmmaker Nick Bilton to run the iconic newsmagazine program,
"60 Minutes" is on the clock — in more ways than its new leader might realize. When Bari Weiss, CBS News' editor in chief, named Nick Bilton last week to lead the venerable newsmagazine into its 59th season,
CBS News head Bari Weiss announced on Thursday that she is hiring tech writer & documentarian Nick Bilton as the new executive producer of the long-running CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes. Bilton, who has no broadcast news experience,
Bari Weiss, CBS’s editor in chief, named Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, as the show’s executive producer. The network also fired two on-air correspondents.
Cecilia Vega, one of the “60 Minutes” correspondents ousted in Thursday’s reorganization of the CBS News magazine, says she’s worried about the future of the program and where it may be headed under the management installed by parent company Paramount Skydance.
The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg joins Ros and Katie to discuss her exclusive interview with Nicola Sturgeon, the first since her estranged husband pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,000 from the SNP. John Ferguson, Political Editor at the Sunday Mail in Scotland, also shares his experience of reporting on the story from the very beginning.
MS NOW host Rachel Maddow jokingly remarked that she hopes former "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley joins her network after he was fired on Tuesday.