Top Producer of ’60 Minutes’ Quits

“CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of ’60 Minutes,’ Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence,” the New York Times reports.

In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history — told his staff in a memo that “over 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.”