CBS News taps filmmaker Nick Bilton to lead ’60 Minutes’

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Executive producer Tanya Simon will be leaving about a year after being named to the job following 30 years at the venerable Sunday evening program.

CBS News has officially fired 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi days after she went scorched earth on the network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, when her contract wasn’t renewed, according to reports.

Alfonsi, who joined "60 Minutes" in 2015, lashed out at Weiss last year when the polarizing news chief delayed her segment about allegations of abuses at the El Salvador prison CECOT.