Nick Bilton, a longtime technology journalist and documentarian, has been named executive producer of “60 Minutes,” replacing Tanya Simon, who is leaving about a year after taking the role. CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski said the goal is building a show that thrives in the 21st century. They called for a new approach that expands “60 Minutes” beyond a one-hour television broadcast, deepens its role across CBS News, and holds all produced work to the show’s standards of ambition, fairness, and fearlessness. Weiss and Cibrowski said Bilton embodies the energy and ambition of the show’s founders. Other personnel changes included correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega being let go.
"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. The appointment positions a technology journalist and documentarian to lead a long-running broadcast newsmagazine known for its ticking stopwatch."
"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. The leadership changes were framed as part of a shift toward a new chapter for the program."
"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."
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