Nick Bilton has been selected to lead 60 Minutes, CBS News’s flagship newsmagazine program. The appointment follows reported cuts at CBS News and includes the removal of executive producers Tanya Simon and Draggan Mihailovich. Correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi also left. Bilton previously worked as a New York Times tech columnist, a Vanity Fair writer, and a documentary filmmaker, with no significant broadcast news experience. The changes occur while 60 Minutes remains highly successful, holding the No. 1 news show position for 52 straight seasons. Nielsen ratings are up 9 percent year over year, a rare increase in the streaming era. Simon reportedly referenced the ratings improvement in a departing memo to staff.
"CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has picked a new executive producer to lead the (historically) editorially independent flagship newsmagazine program 60 Minutes: Nick Bilton. Bilton is a former New York Times tech columnist turned Vanity Fair writer turned documentary filmmaker, and he has no prior significant experience in broadcast news, a trait that Weiss shared when David Ellison installed her at the top of CBS News last year."
"In bringing Bilton on to run the show, she has also ousted its two most senior leaders, executive producers Tanya Simon and Draggan Mihailovich. She also let correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi leave the building. (Alfonsi reported the CECOT story and just this week spoke out publicly against Weiss's leadership when her 60 Minutes contract wasn't renewed.)"
"This is happening while program is wildly successful. It's been the No. 1 news show in America for 52 straight seasons. According to Nielsen, ratings for 60 Minutes are up 9 percent over where they were last year, a rarity for news in the streaming era and a detail that Simon, per Variety, noted in her parting memo to staff on Thursday."
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