05/28/2026
Update: "60 Minutes" shakeup; Cecilia Vega out [What Paramount's Merger Plan Has to Do With You (Notices 5-27-26)]
Just as Seth Stern of the Freedom of the Press Foundation told us in yesterday 's post < https://tinyurl.com/mubfx9bw > that " “I’d say that what’s happening at CBS is a pretty good predictor of what is likely to happen at CNN," citing that as one reason for us to sign his letter opposing Paramount's merger plans, Benjamin Mullin of the New York Times today reports:
CBS News Names an Outsider, Nick Bilton, to Lead ‘60 Minutes’
Mr. Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, said he would bring new voices to the show. The overhaul by Bari Weiss, CBS’s editor in chief, included the firing of the correspondent Cecilia Vega.
Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, signaled a new direction for the nation’s top news program on Thursday, replacing the executive producer of “60 Minutes” with Nick Bilton, a longtime tech journalist and documentarian who has never worked in traditional broadcast news.
The appointment came as part of a significant shake-up at the venerable Sunday evening news program. Cecilia Vega [pictured], a correspondent, was fired on Thursday, as was the current executive producer, Tanya Simon, who had spent more than 30 years at the program.. . .
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/business/media/nick-bilton-60-minutes-bari-weiss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l1A.DauT.ccoPR2Z2EnXB&smid=url-share
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JOBS
From these journalist organizations
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From the Maynard Institute (May 14)
From the Uproot Project (May 26)
From Online News Association (May 27)
From National Society of Newspaper Columnists (May 27)
. . in today's "Notices"
https://tinyurl.com/mubfx9bw
https://www.journal-isms.com/what-paramounts-merger-plan.../
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