{"id":828755,"date":"2026-05-28T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/828755\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:05:18","slug":"cbss-bari-weiss-installs-new-head-at-60-minutes-calls-for-new-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/828755\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS’s Bari Weiss installs new head at ’60 Minutes,’ calls for ‘new approach’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Saying it was time for a new approach and a new chapter, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss<\/a> has replaced the executive producer of \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d naming outsider Nick Bilton, a longtime technology journalist and documentarian, as the show\u2019s new leader. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In a memo to staff Thursday, Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski said their goal was \u201cbuilding a show that thrives in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat requires a new approach,\u201d Weiss and Cibrowski wrote, defining it as \u201cexpanding \u201860 Minutes\u2019 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 \u201860 Minutes\u2019 at its best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bilton, they said, \u201cembodies the energy and ambition that animated the founders of the show. We cannot imagine a better fit.\u201d Bilton is also a former New York Times technology columnist.<\/p>\n

Others let go as well<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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\u2019s new management, she has fast become a headline-maker and polarizing figure in journalism. <\/p>\n

In his own lengthy memo to staff, Bilton, who comes to his new post without traditional broadcast experience, said \u201c60 Minutes\u201d was \u201cwithout exaggeration, the most important television journalism brand this country has ever produced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fact that this show has remained a fixed point in a culture is part of why this show still matters as much as it does,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t want to lose that. But the world we are reporting on, and the world we are reporting to, where people consume their news, has moved. And if we don\u2019t move with it, in the ways that matter, we won\u2019t be here for the next sixty years. I want to do everything humanly possible to ensure that we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

A bumpy period for \u201860 Minutes\u2019<\/p>\n

In July of last year, to the dismay of many at the show, Paramount settled with President Donald Trump<\/a> out-of-court after he sued \u201c60 Minutes\u201d for how it had handled an interview with Kamala Harris, his 2024 election opponent. <\/p>\n

In December, the show, at Weiss\u2019 direction, held off at the last minute<\/a> showing Alfonsi\u2019s report about the deportees, saying greater effort was needed to secure an interview with administration officials. Alfonsi complained privately that the decision was political. The story aired a month later<\/a> with additional administration comments, but no on-camera interviews with officials. <\/p>\n

The episode, and others, has had critics watching to see if Weiss is moving the network in a Trump-friendly direction. Since her appointment, Trump administration officials have been more visible on CBS News, in interviews that she sometimes helped arrange. The president himself<\/a> was interviewed by Norah O\u2019Donnell on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n

In February, Anderson Cooper exited the show, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family, but raising questions about whether it had anything to do with Weiss\u2019s leadership. Cooper had contributed stories to \u201c60 Minutes\u201d as part of a job-sharing arrangement with CNN, where his prime-time \u201cAnderson Cooper 360\u201d has aired since 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Saying it was time for a new approach and a new chapter, CBS News…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":828756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[27602,2122,127560,64,27599,69,171,27593,398,340205,170416,80,27601,340204,399,145626,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-828755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anderson-cooper","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-bari-weiss","tag-business","tag-cecilia-vega","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media","tag-nick-bilton","tag-norah-odonnell","tag-politics","tag-sharyn-alfonsi","tag-tanya-simon","tag-television","tag-tom-cibrowski","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116654711362118312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}