Nick Bilton, the new executive producer of "60 Minutes."
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"60 Minutes" has a new top producer.Nick Bilton, a former New York Times and Vanity Fair columnist, author, and documentary producer, is taking the helm of the news show, CBS News announced on Thursday.Bilton is replacing "60 Minutes" veteran, Tanya Simon, who took on the role of interim executive producer a little over a year ago.In a memo sent to staff, which Bilton shared online, he signaled plans to shake up how the storied news-magazine show is run."I'm here to lead this show, not preserve it under glass," Bilton wrote. "I have a notebook full of ideas. Some are about the show itself. Some are about the next generation of correspondents. Some are about the strange fact that we produce one extraordinary hour for one night a week in a world that consumes content around the clock."In a press release, CBS News' owner Paramount said Bilton was the show's fifth executive producer and its first with experience outside traditional television."We have huge ambition for '60 Minutes' to reach new heights through deep, revelatory journalism," CBS News' chief editor Bari Weiss said in a statement about the appointment. "Nick shares this mission and will bring his deep investigative experience and understanding of the technological moment we're in to '60 Minutes' so that its important journalism comes to life for all audiences."
