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At What Point Will Ellison Intervene at CBS News?

With ‘60 Minutes’ in chaos and star correspondent Lesley Stahl hiring superagent Bryan Lourd to guide her future, the Paramount owner may soon need to decide how much he’ll let Bari Weiss disrupt the show—and the news division—before reining her in.

David Ellison
Paramount Skydance C.E.O. David Ellison. Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Paramount
Matthew Belloni
June 5, 2026

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CAA won’t be sending out a New Client Alert! on this one, but agency head Bryan Lourd has quietly begun advising 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl amid the slow-moving car crash at CBS News. Lourd has known Stahl for years, but the representation is new, and it’s not decided if the 35-year veteran and last remaining on-air connection to creator Don Hewitt will follow the fired correspondents Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Cecilia Vega, as well as Anderson Cooper, out the door. (A CAA rep didn’t respond.)