Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of CBS News' "60 Minutes," is stepping down over concerns about editorial independence, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on April 22.

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Wendy McMahon, the co-President of CBS News since 2021 and its CEO since 2023, announced her decision to step down from the role after talks with upper management broke down concerning President Trump ...

Kudos to CBS for “allowing” executive producer Bill Owens to “quit” as a result of President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against “60 Minutes” (“CBS Big: Eye Quit,” April 23).

A day after “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens abruptly quit the venerable news show last week, he was spotted lunching at the Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side with CBS News president ...

In the final minutes of the show’s Sunday evening broadcast, longtime correspondent Scott Pelley informed viewers that Bill Owens, the show’s executive producer since 2019, resigned last week ...

CBS News’ ‘“60 Minutes” addressed the surprise exit of its longtime executive producer Bill Owens on Sunday’s program, with anchor Scott Pelley saying that “no one is happy” about ...

Bill Owens is stepping down as executive producer of 60 Minutes after five years at the helm. His departure marks a major change for the long-running CBS news magazine, a staple of American ...

Bill Owens has been with CBS News for nearly four decades. After his internship in 1988, he became a senior producer for the White House beat and later, senior broadcast producer for CBS Evening News.