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Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence

The New York Times · Michael M. Grynbaum · last updated

CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence. 

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