After weeks of speculation, CBS News under Bari Weiss has made some big changes to the team at 60 Minutes — firing the executive producer Tanya Simon, as well as correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of the show, was also fired, as was Matthew Polevoy, a senior producer.
They announced a new executive producer — Nick Bilton, a former New York Times technology columnist who has made documentaries for HBO and Netflix. The New York Times typically dissed their former co-workers for being inexperienced: “Ms. Weiss, an opinion journalist with no prior experience in television,” has hired “Mr. Bilton, who has never worked in traditional broadcast news.” But he’s been making documentaries, which is pretty much what 60 Minutes aims to do.
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