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The Ballad of Bill Owens

While the upcoming season of ‘60 Minutes’ will surely attract outsize attention and scrutiny as yet another measure of Bari Weiss’s competency, the real showstopper may be the coming memoir by the show’s former executive producer.

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Bill Owens speaks during the 2026 Writers Guild Awards ceremony in New York City. Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America East
Dylan Byers
July 15, 2026

In the coming weeks, I’m told, new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton will announce a fresh slate of correspondents who will anchor the storied newsmagazine’s 59th season, which debuts in just two months. The names are sure to garner significant scrutiny and attention—the inexorable decline of television news notwithstanding. Yes, 60 Minutes may be shoulder programming for the NFL, but David Ellison’s ownership of CBS and Bari Weiss’s chaotic tenure atop its news division has cast a klieg light on every incremental hiring, firing, and programming change.

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