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\n\tHold the stopwatch! <\/p>\n

\n\tThe new boss at \u201c60 Minutes\u201d believes the venerable newsmagazine ought to be more prevalent in popular culture and the news cycle, rather than merely holding forth in its usual place on Sunday evenings on CBS. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThe show is on the air one day, one night, one hour a week, and to me there is an incredible opportunity to take the show and do a lot of things with it,\u201d says Nick Bilton, who was named executive producer of the CBS News mainstay Thursday in an announcement that has shocked insiders at the news division. Bilton is replacing Tanya Simon, a longtime senior steward of the show and a daughter of one of its former correspondents, Bob Simon. Her deputy, Draggan Mihailovich, was also ousted, along with two of the show\u2019s correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.<\/p>\n

\n\tBilton is just the fifth executive producer in the newsmagazine\u2019s nearly six-decade history, but he is the first person to lead the show without either extensive experience at CBS News, or a long career already established by working at the show. He says he hopes to \u201creach a different generation of consumers that don\u2019t tune in to the broadcast channel but still want to experience \u201960 Minutes\u2019 in all its forms.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBilton won\u2019t be the first to attempt such a feat. Previous producers have tried everything from launching a second weekday edition of the program \u2014 \u201c60 Minutes II\u201d aired on Wednesdays, then Fridays from 1999 to 2005 \u2014 to a digital version of the series that relied on shorter segments and was built for the quick-hit-video platform Quibi and then the Paramount+ streaming service. Both projects ultimately ran their course.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe has one thing previous producers did not have \u2014 a vote of confidence from Bari Weiss, the CBS News Editor in Chief whose zeal for reforming the Paramount Skydance news division has given rise to a growing line of likely unwanted controversies at the once-staid news outlet that has been best known for its historical ties to Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.<\/p>\n

\n\tBilton says he met Weiss out in Los Angeles, where he had begun to work on documentaries and movies after stints at The New York Times and Vanity Fair. His access to Hollywood, he says, started as he began to option stories he wrote for the Conde Nast magazine for film projects. And then he met up with Weiss and the two worked on some documentary projects together, says Bilton. \u201cWe really started to understand the way both of our minds worked,\u201d he recalled, with a focus on storytelling and entrepreneurialism and thinking about how projects might play acorss different media platforms. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring one meeting, says Bilton, \u201cshe brought up the idea of me potentially coming on to run \u201960\u2032\u201d but his first reaction was why give up on the movies and TV work. Ultimately, says Bilton, \u201cI could not get \u201960\u2019 out of my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe will find that many other people cannot, either. \u201c60 Minutes\u201d has been under intense scrutiny for months. The show was turned into a bargaining chip between Paramount\u2019s previous managers and the Trump administration, which leveraged a\u00a0$16 million settlement\u00a0to end what has been viewed in many legal circles as a flimsy lawsuit tied to a pre-Election Day interview between Bill Whitaker, a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent, and former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Paramount made the deal as it sought to complete its sale to Skydance.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo senior CBS News executives \u2014 Bill\u00a0Owens, the former executive producer of \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d\u00a0and Wendy McMahon, the former CEO of CBS News, local stations and syndication \u2014 suggested in remarks that they could no longer push back against corporate mandates they felt would weaken the newsroom. Both left CBS News last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd there has been skepticism about Weiss\u2019 stewardship of the program. Late last year, she ordered held a story by Alfonsi about migrants being shipped by the U.S. to harsh imprisonment in El Salvador. Weiss did so after \u201c60 Minutes\u201d had already promoted the segment in public circles, calling for Alfonsi to get comment from Trump officials after she had already made efforts to do so. The move drew new inquiry because it had the appearance of trying to placate the Trump administration over a story officials might not find favorable. The segment appeared during a January, 2026, telecast and Weiss acknowledged she drew unwanted attention because she was unfamiliar with some of the news outlet\u2019s processes.<\/p>\n

\n\tBilton says he has a pretty stiff spine and can stand up to those who might seek to thwart the show\u2019s newsgathering efforts. Keeping a story going in the face of adversity \u201cis just about my favorite thing to do,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is nothing I love more than picking a fight and I did it at The New York Times and I did it at Vanity Fair,\u201d he says, adding: \u201cWe need that more than ever now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBilton declined to discuss any potential staffing moves that might take place after Thursday\u2019s reorganization, and also felt he could not reveal any of the plans he suggested to Weiss in their previous conversations because he wanted to have more substantial meeting with \u201c60 Minutes\u201d producers and staff. There\u2019s no reason, he believes, why the program can\u2019t keep trying new things.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the media sector, says Bilton, \u201cif you don\u2019t disrupt, you yourself will be disrupted.\u201d And with that, it feels like the show\u2019s famous timepiece has started its countdown anew. <\/p>\n

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