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60 Minutes Names Tanya Simon as First Female Executive Producer

Paramount Global has settled President Trump’s lawsuit for $16 million under regulators’ conditions on its Skydance merger

NEW YORK - JULY 21: Tanya Simon, Interim Executive Producer of 60 Minutes.(Photo by Michele Crowe/CBS News via Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Tanya Simon will officially lead 60 Minutes as its fourth executive producer in 57 years and the first woman to hold the position.
  • Simon joined CBS in 1996, has worked on 60 Minutes since 2000 and won multiple Emmy Awards, a Peabody and a DuPont-Columbia Award before serving as interim EP.
  • Bill Owens resigned in April after warning that corporate and legal pressures were eroding the program’s journalistic independence.
  • Paramount Global agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over edits to a Kamala Harris interview to help secure merger approval with Skydance Media.
  • The FCC’s news distortion probe remains active and regulators have required installing a bias ombudsman at CBS News as part of the merger conditions.