CBS News taps Tanya Simon
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The network is not hiring an outsider to helm “60 Minutes” as the program’s correspondents feared might happen.
Minutes has named its next executive producer, three months after its former boss abruptly quit in protest. Tanya Simon—daughter of the show’s legendary correspondent Bob Simon—will become the first woman to run the TV news magazine and just the fourth person to hold the role since the CBS show debuted in 1968.
CBS News has named Tanya Simon the new executive producer of its flagship newsmagazine 60 Minutes. Simon succeeds Bill Owens, who resigned as EP earlier this year, citing corporate interference that meant “I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it,” Owens told staff. Simon was named interim EP following his exit.
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