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CBS’s ’60 Minutes’ Names New Executive Producer

Feb 6, 2019  •  Post A Comment

CBS’s long-running newsmagazine “60 Minutes” has a new executive producer, with CBS News announcing this week that longtime CBS journalist Bill Owens has been given the job.

“Effective immediately, Owens will become executive producer, replacing his predecessor, Jeff Fager, who was fired in September after threatening the career of a CBS News reporter who was reporting on allegations of misconduct against him. Owens has been leading the show on an interim basis since then,” CBS News reports.

The report adds: “Owens began his journalism career at CBS News in 1988, serving as a summer intern covering national political conventions in Atlanta and New Orleans. Since then, he’s worked in various areas of the news division, and has been executive editor at ’60 Minutes’ since June 2008.”

Owens was previously a senior broadcast producer at “CBS Evening News.”

“In his new role, Owens will report directly to Susan Zirinsky, the newly appointed president and senior executive producer of CBS News,” the story reports.

Zirinsky is quoted saying: “Bill Owens is steeped in the storytelling style audiences have come to expect from ’60 Minutes.’ He has led the broadcast to some of its most important and timely journalism these past few months, during one of its most crucial periods. We are fortunate to be able to put such a talented veteran in charge of this iconic program. I am confident that with Bill and the seasoned team of journalists involved in this broadcast you will see more of the kind of work that’s made ’60 Minutes’ the most-watched news program in America.”

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