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On Monday evening, CBS television chairman George Cheeks and new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton met for dinner in the backroom of Come Prima, the discreet and clubby trattoria on the Upper East Side. The introductory bread-breaking session was, by all accounts, quite amicable—George likes Nick, Nick likes George, etcetera—but it also underscored their company’s rather unorthodox org structure. Nick reports to Bari, who reports directly to David Ellison. George, who had jurisdiction over past newsroom leaders, now only oversees Bari’s counterpart, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski.
