{"id":39487,"date":"2025-04-22T18:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/60-minutes-executive-producer-leaves-program-over-journalistic-independence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:59:32","slug":"60-minutes-executive-producer-leaves-program-over-journalistic-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/60-minutes-executive-producer-leaves-program-over-journalistic-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Minutes executive producer leaves program over journalistic independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Owens says in staff memo \u2018it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, says he is leaving the flagship news program because he lost his journalistic independence.<\/p>\n<p>In a staff memo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/business\/media\/cbs-60-minutes-trump-bill-owens.html\">obtained<\/a> by the New York Times, Owens said that \u201cover the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/22\/60-minutes-executive-producer-leaves-bill-owens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Owens says in staff memo \u2018it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it\u2019 Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, says he is leaving the flagship news program because he lost his journalistic independence. In a staff memo obtained by the &#8230; <a title=\"60 Minutes executive producer leaves program over journalistic independence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/60-minutes-executive-producer-leaves-program-over-journalistic-independence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 60 Minutes executive producer leaves program over journalistic independence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}