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Following nan firing of Scott Pelley and others astatine 60 Minutes, nan show’s caller executive shaper Nick Bilton sent retired a caller memo to staffers, an effort to connection assurances astir nan program’s early amid allegations of firm influence.
“We will ever make nan communicative nan North Star — not relationships nor authorities nor thing else. We will beryllium guided solely and ever by what makes nan champion portion for our viewers,” Bilton wrote. “And it should spell without saying, but I’ll opportunity it anyway: We will ne'er beryllium instructed by nan ownership of nan institution connected these stories.”
Bilton besides wrote that he has had conversations pinch nan show’s 3 remaining full-time correspondents, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim, though his memo did not bespeak whether they planned to enactment pinch nan show.
“We talked astir what makes 60 Minutes exceptional, astir nan traditions and bequest of nan past, astir really you do nan activity that produces specified momentous pieces. We besides talked astir change: About caller audiences, caller platforms, and caller ways of storytelling that these caller audiences need.”
Bilton besides wrote that Maria Gavrilovic has been named elder producer.
More to come.
