CBS fills 60 Minutes producer role
CBS fills longtime 60 Minutes producer’s role months after his resignation
CBS announced Thursday that Tanya Simon will be the newest executive producer of its 60 Minutes program.
The Sunday program 60 Minutes has been running for almost 60 years, and until earlier this year, it had done so with only three executive producers. In April, Bill Owens made the shock announcement that he was resigning from the show after 26 years, the last six of which he spent as executive producer.
Simon is the daughter of Bob Simon, a former 60 Minutes correspondent. The younger Simon will be the first female executive producer in the program’s 57 years.
CBS first hired Simon in 1996 as a researcher for 48 Hours. Simon has worked for the 60 Minutes team since 2000. She had been the interim executive producer since Owens’s resignation.
Over the years, Simon won multiple Emmy Awards, the Peabody, and the DuPont-Columbia Award.
“It is a privilege to lead 60 MINUTES and its formidable team of journalists,” Simon said.
“60 is in a class of its own, upholding a legacy of extraordinary and thought-provoking journalism for more than half a century,” she added.
“I’m deeply committed to this level of excellence and I look forward to delivering an exciting season of signature 60 stories that cover a wide range of subjects for a broad audience and engage viewers with their world,” Simon concluded.
CBS News’s parent company, Paramount Global, paid President Donald Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over edits made to a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris during her presidential campaign.
The settlement came as Paramount Global sought approval from the Trump administration to merge with Skydance Media. The merger was announced last summer. David Ellison, the founder of Skydance and son of Larry Ellison, would become the chairman and CEO of New Paramount.
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Trump claimed that the edits made to Harris’s interview were “the biggest scandal in broadcast history: They actually took her answer out and gave her a different answer after it was shot.” Network executives said the interview was edited for time purposes, but not doctored.
Owens left the program after the lawsuit but before it was settled. CBS President Wendy McMahon also left the network ahead of the settlement.
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