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’60 Minutes’ Chief Bill Owens On Embracing YouTube, Navigating Paramount Unease & Updating Show’s Election Coverage For 2024: “A Lot Of People Haven’t Made Up Their Minds”
"60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens has one of the trickiest balancing acts in media: outfitting a 56-year-old TV mainstay for the digital age.
Matthew Polevoy, a senior producer who oversees digital for the show, has also orchestrated a push onto platforms like TikTok, where clips from the Murphy interview tripled 60 Minutes ‘ weekly viewing. “I’m not committing to that one way or another right now because there’s a lot of uncertainty, frankly, here at the end of February.” General education about issues is more of a priority given how precarious the democratic system feels — Owens cites Anderson Cooper’s segment on fake electors in Wisconsin earlier this month. Visitors come through the lobby, where a glass-encased yellow swivel chair from the show’s 1968 debut stands opposite the iconic stopwatch logo, but once they reach his office there is plenty of conversation about interrogating the systems of the past.
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