’60 minutes’ staff has new stories to tell after the season of Tumult
As a correspondent for “60 minutes”, Bill Whitaker is not known for his young learning skills. At the moment, however, the CBS News veteran has various ambitious assignments for the venerable news magazine in the air.
There is one that he hopes will be chosen for the seasonal premiere of the 58 of the showone Season, for which he recently traveled to Finland and the Baltic Sea, about a group of ships that have broken critical submarine internet and electricity cables in recent months. Authorities suspect that the attacks are part of a Russia campaign to tear the underwater infrastructure of NATO union members. He has worked on the project for the past seven or eight months, he says during a recent interview. “I try to peel this onion. There is something going on that does not smell completely, and how do you get there? How do you find out what is actually going on?”
Whitaker, 74 years old, also works on a look at a sport that he believes “you’ve never heard before, but I guarantee that you will hear from it soon.” And then there is the story about a man who makes concert pieces from animal sounds. Such activity, he says, “is the norm for ’60 minutes” “, who will have his seasonal premiere on Sunday 28 September. CBS has already begun to promote the new cycle with a minute -long promo, cinematic in scope, who debuted on Sunday evening and viewers the wide range of stories that correspondents prepare.
And yet life on “60 minutes” has certainly been abnormal in recent months.
Producers, correspondents and employees of the long-term program hope to come from a season of Tumult in which the show became a political hot potato and the pawn in a larger game between the CBS News, Paramount and the American government.
Inmiddels is het verhaal bekend bij de liefhebbers van de media-industrie: in een rechtszaak die in november 2024 in het noordelijke district van Texas in het noordelijke district van Texas is ingediend, beweerde president Trump dat “60 minuten” kiezers misleidde door twee verschillende bewerkingen van opmerkingen uit te voeren in een interview met voormalig vice-president Kamala Harris, toen Trump’s Rival voor het blanke house. Legal experts believed that Trump had little status. Management at Paramount, please win FCC approval for a sale to Skydance Media while struggling with decline in his traditional company, agreed to pay $ 16 million to arrange the case. The deal then closed.
In the meantime, former TOP CBS News management claims that Paramount “60 minutes” was subject to more than usual control of the types of stories it was intended to air. Both Wendy McMahon, the CBS director who supervised the news division and CBS stations, and Bill Owens, the executive producer of “60 minutes”, with Owens quoted an increasing lack of power “to make independent decisions based on what was good for the veteran, the Veteran, the Public Lesley, the Public Lesley. told Variety In April she was ‘destroyed’ by his exit and hoped that managers realized that the show is ‘one of the reasons that CBS News is valuable’. The program is the most viewed news series on broadcast TV.
Tanya Simon, the former executive editor of the Nieuwsmagazine and a daughter of Bob Simon, one of the former correspondents of the show, has taken the reins of the show.
The staff, says Whitaker, now hopes to continue. “All this is beyond us to tell you the truth. We are going outside,” he says. “Many of the things that have continued are things that we have no influence on or the power to change. The power we have is the power of telling stories; to be able to tell the story of America, so that Americans have the information we all need, so that we can all make decisions about how our government works. I think that is what journalism is always about.”
Some stories in the editorial pipeline “60 minutes” will swing directly from recent headlines. Scott Pelley, for example, in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah, interviewed how to bridge the growing political gap in the US and the importance of freedom of expression. Pelley also went to Utah Valley University with Cox to speak with students who witnessed the shooting in Kirk. Pelley has also traveled to Ukraine to report in Sumy about war crimes.
Other correspondents have overtaken people who influence culture. Jon Wertheim spoke with Dana White, UFC Commissioner, about his quarter of a century at the helm of the competition. Under their topics of conversation: the upcoming UFC fight 2026 on the lawn of the White House. Stahl met director Rob Reiner on the set of his new film, “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues”, in New Orleans and checked 41 years after the debut of the original film “This is Spinal Tap”.
And some of the familiar faces of the NewsMagazine are planning to show viewers things they have probably never encountered before. Anderson Cooper has worked on a report on how decades of reinforced conflict in Colombia created ‘no-go’ areas where rare bird species have been able to flourish. And Cecelia Vega traveled to the foot of Mount Everest with Nima Rinji Sherpa – – the youngest person to call the 14 highest mountains in the world, who represents a new generation of Nepali climbers.
The previous season of the Nieuwsmagazine was filled with commotion, but Whitaker says there is noise about something that is tied to the show almost every year. “There is no normal season for ’60 minutes.” It is chaotic and crazy and busy all the time. “Yet he notes:” We are all enthusiastic to move forward this season. It’s important for us and we think it’s important for the country. “
