Shake Up at ‘60 Minutes’ as CBS News Ousts Executive Producer Tanya Simon, Correspondents Cecilia Vega, Sharyn Alfonsi; Taps Nick Bilton to Run Newsmagazine

By Brian Steinberg

Brian Steinberg

Senior TV Editor

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• Shake Up at ‘60 Minutes’ as CBS News Ousts Executive Producer Tanya Simon, Correspondents Cecilia Vega, Sharyn Alfonsi; Taps Nick Bilton to Run Newsmagazine 49 minutes ago
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CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss shook up the TV-news industry’s most-watched and best-regarded property Thursday, ousting the program’s two most senior executive producers, Tanya Simon and Draggan Mihailoivich, along with correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, according to two people familiar with the matter.

CBS News named Nick Bilton, a former technology columnist at The New York Times and a contributor at Vanity Fair as the new executive producer of the program, adding a degree of uncertainty to the next steps of a series that generated $206.3 million in advertising in 2024, according to Guideline, a tracker of ad spending. It remained unclear on Thursday whether others among the show’s production and correspondent staff might be cut in future days.

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