Benjamin Mullin

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Benjamin Mullin |Lauren Hirsch |Michael M. Grynbaum

Paramount's interest in settling has dismayed CBS's news division. The executive producer of "60 Minutes" abruptly resigned last week. Lawyers for President Trump and Paramount, the parent of CBS News, are set to begin mediation on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump that accuses "60 Minutes" of deceptively editing an interview with his 2024 Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. Legal experts have called the suit baseless and an easy victory for CBS.

2 weeks ago | editorandpublisher.com | Michael M. Grynbaum |Benjamin Mullin

Posted Monday, April 28, 2025 11:21 am In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign. “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” the correspondent, Scott Pelley, told viewers. “None of our stories has been blocked, but Bill felt he lost the...

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Michael M. Grynbaum |Benjamin Mullin

The show's top producer abruptly said last week he was quitting. "Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways," the correspondent Scott Pelley told viewers. In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at "60 Minutes" directly criticized the program's parent company in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program's executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign.

3 weeks ago | editorandpublisher.com | Michael M. Grynbaum |Benjamin Mullin

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2025 11:39 am CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program, citing encroachments on his journalistic independence. In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history — told his staff in a memo that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the...

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Katie Robertson |Benjamin Mullin

Sewell Chan, the executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, was fired from the publication on Thursday after less than a year in the role, following staff complaints about his behavior, he confirmed Friday. Jelani Cobb, the dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, told staff members in an email on Friday that Mr. Chan was "no longer with" CJR, a publication covering the media industry which the school has published since 1961.