Newly minted "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton is hoping to tamp down the leaks to the press about newsroom drama, much of which he insists are false."Since I started here there has been roughly a rumor a day.About me, about you, about what's coming next — 95 percent of them are fabrications and blatantly incorrect," Bilton wrote Monday in a staff memo obtained by Fox News Digital.
"I no longer have the time or the patience for them, and I'd rather we spend that energy on the stories.""If you hear something and it matters to you, come ask me and I'll tell you what I know.Otherwise, I'd like this place to be talked about for what we put on television," he added.FIRED ‘60 MINUTES’ CORRESPONDENTS SHARYN ALFONSI AND SCOTT PELLEY WASH UP AT COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOLNewly minted "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton is hoping to tamp down leaked "rumors" about his program following the dramatic staffing shake-up in May.
(Paul Morigi/Getty Images for WHC Insider and Spotify; Jai Lennard/CBS News2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.All Rights Reserved.)Bilton spent much of the memo, which was first reported by Status News, going over "housekeeping notes" ahead of the show's 59th season set to air next month, including where his new office is, planned lunches in the coming weeks and the roll-out of a digital version of the "60 Minutes" story board."The story board has been replaced with a digital version that updates in real time with what correspondents, producers and editors are working on.
There is no reason in 2026 we should be tracking the #1 show in news using a dry erase marker," Bilton told staff.FIRED '60 MINUTES' CORRESPONDENT ACCUSES CBS NEWS LEADERSHIP OF MEDDLING IN REPORTING"60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton.(Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)He also addressed questions staffers have asked him about working in the office, writing, "I firmly believe we're all grownups and I'm not going to take attendance.
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