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\n\tParamount CEO David Ellison recently vowed to \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent Lesley Stahl that the newsmagazine would have \u201ceditorial independence,\u201d according to three people familiar with the matter, the latest sign the media conglomerate is trying to tamp down tensions around the venerable program in the wake of a recent ouster of its top producers and half its on-air staff.<\/p>\n

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\n\tStahl told \u201c60 Minutes\u201d staffers on Monday that David Ellison had reached out to her and vowed the program woudl retain its independence, according to the two people. He also apologized for some of the recent tumult around the show, these people confirmed.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Guardian and The New York Times previously reported details about the conversation between Ellison and Stahl. Paramount declined to make executives available for comment. <\/p>\n

\nCBS News in late May ousted much of the senior management of \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d\u00a0a flagship CBS property and one of journalism\u2019s crown jewels. Nearly two weeks ago, CBS News fired Tanya Simon, the executive producer of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d; Draggan Mihailovich, the show\u2019s executive editor; correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega; and senior producers Guy Campanile and Matthew Polevoy.\u00a0Within days, Scott Pelley was also dispatched,\u00a0following verbal sparring with the show\u2019s new leader, Nick Bilton. The program, the most-watched news show in the U.S., is left with just three correspondents\u00a0and a need to get stories ready to go for fall.<\/p>\n

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\n\tEllison\u2019s words may help soothe tensions at the program, which has been roiled in recent days and still faces a difficult summer without more full-time correspondents. Under Bari Weiss, the CBS News, editor in chief, the company is believed to want to wring more content out of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that can be used in digital and social media, and also deliver more timely news segments that rely on \u201cgets\u201d of people in the middle of important, breaking stories. Of course \u201c60 Minutes\u201d was already doing much of this stuff in recent years.<\/p>\n

\n\tEllison has said promising things to CBS News staffers in the recent past, only to undermine his words. In September, the company named Kenneth Weinstein, the former CEO of the conservative think tank Hudson Institute, to serve as the ombudsman of CBS News. His job to is to probe allegations of bias and error, among other things. Hiring Weinstein dashed much of the rapport Ellison had made with CBS News staffers when he first acquired the Paramount assets. According to people familiar with the matter, Ellison had told CBS News employees how much he admired the work they did in an early meeting after the deal had closed.<\/p>\n

\n\tCalming affairs at CBS News could be of, well, paramount importance to the media company. Midterm elections, coming later in 2026, typically bring bigger audiences and the advertising dollars that follow them to news programs. Weiss presides over a group of stalwart programs \u2013\u00a0 \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d \u201cCBS Evening News,\u201d \u201cCBS Sunday Morning,\u201d \u201cCBS Mornings,\u201d \u201c48 Hours\u201d and \u201cFace The Nation \u2014 that generated $362 million in 2025, according to Guideline, a tracker of ad spending.<\/p>\n

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