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‘60 Minutes’ Is a ‘Cage Full of Tigers.’ Can Nick Bilton Lead It?

NYT > Business > Media · Katie Robertson · last updated

The tech journalist and filmmaker was a surprise choice to lead a famously combative newsroom. His first week was chaos.

It took less than a week for Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of “60 Minutes,” to land in the middle of a very public fight between the staff of the award-winning CBS News program and his new bosses at the network.

Things were already tense between the staff and Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, when she ousted the show’s senior leadership and installed Mr. Bilton, a tech journalist and documentary filmmaker with no broadcast news experience.

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