60 Minutes
American television news magazine program
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| March 30 2025 | Liz Hayes, a long-standing correspondent, concludes her tenure with 60 Minutes after nearly three decades with the program. |
| 2024 | Adam Hegarty became a new correspondent for 60 Minutes, further diversifying the program's reporting staff. |
| 2024 | Tracy Grimshaw begins reporting for 60 Minutes |
| 2024 | Dimity Clancey joined 60 Minutes as a correspondent, adding to the program's reporting capabilities. |
| December 7 2024 | Donald Trump filed a $20 billion lawsuit against CBS and Paramount Global, alleging deceptive editing of a '60 Minutes' interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming the network distorted her Middle East policy responses to influence public opinion during the presidential election. |
| 2023 | Cecilia Vega joins 60 Minutes as a host. |
| 2023 | The show began to have occasional 90-minute episodes. |
| 2023 | Variety ranks 60 Minutes as the twentieth-greatest TV show of all time. |
| 2022 | Amelia Adams joined 60 Minutes as a correspondent, expanding the program's reporting team. |
| 2022 | Sarah Abo transitions to part-time reporting for 60 Minutes |
| January 2022 | 60 Minutes+ was cancelled after producing 30 episodes since its premiere. |
| 2021 | John Dickerson's period with the program ends after serving from 2019 to 2021. |
| May 16 2021 | Anderson Cooper reported a story on 60 Minutes about flaws in facial recognition technology used by police, which was criticized by the Algorithmic Justice League for not crediting black female researchers who pioneered the field of AI facial recognition research. |
| April 2021 | 60 Minutes aired a controversial story by Sharyn Alfonsi about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the state's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, which suggested a potential connection between Publix's campaign donation and its vaccine distribution partnership. |
| March 2021 | Paramount+ launched 60 Minutes+ as a weekly spin-off series targeting a younger audience, featuring correspondents from 60 in 6 and producer Jonathan Blakely. |
| 2020 | Deborah Knight joins 60 Minutes as a reporter |
| December 2020 | Quibi went bankrupt, resulting in the conclusion of the 60 in 6 program. |
| June 2020 | 60 Minutes launched '60 in 6' on Quibi, a weekly 6-minute program featuring correspondents Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane, Wesley Lowery, and Laurie Segall. |
| June 21 2020 | On the 60 in 6 broadcast, Seth Doane reported on CBS News' COVID-19 exposure, revealing that staffers from Seattle and Rome were flown in during early March, potentially spreading the virus among CBS employees. |
| 2019 | Viacom and CBS re-merge, reuniting the media companies and potentially reinstating previous cross-promotion practices on 60 Minutes. |
| 2019 | Bill Owens becomes the new executive producer of 60 Minutes, continuing the program's leadership tradition. |
| 2019 | Steve Kroft retires after serving as host and becoming co-editor. |
| 2019 | Nick McKenzie and Sarah Abo begin reporting for 60 Minutes |
| November 2019 | A court ordered Nick Cater, a journalist from the program, to pay an additional $1.2 million in damages for the defamatory Grantham floods story, with the judge noting that Cater did not include contradictory information in the report. |
| May 2019 | A jury ruled that the 2015 Grantham floods story defamed the Wagner family, resulting in Channel Nine being ordered to pay $2.4 million plus interest in damages. |
| 2018 | Jeff Fager's tenure as executive producer of 60 Minutes ends. |
| 2018 | Tom Steinfort first appears as a 60 Minutes correspondent. |
| March 25 2018 | Edition featuring Stormy Daniels discussing her alleged affair with President Donald Trump drew 22.1 million viewers, the most since the 2008 Obama interview. |
| 2017 | Oprah Winfrey serves as a correspondent from 2017 to 2018. |
| 2017 | Jon Wertheim becomes a host of 60 Minutes. |
| 2017 | Peter Stefanovic appears as a correspondent. |
| 2017 | Allison Langdon transitions to part-time reporting for 60 Minutes |
| 2016 | Morley Safer's hosting period ends after 46 years with the program. |
| April 2016 | Tara Brown and eight other 60 Minutes staff members were arrested in Beirut on allegations of child abduction. The team reportedly paid $115,000 to a child abduction recovery agency and attempted to remove children from their grandmother and nanny, which led to potential charges of armed abduction and threats, carrying potential twenty-year imprisonment sentences. |
| April 11 2016 | 60 Minutes returns with Alistair Wilkinson presenting current affairs from around the world. |
| 2015 | Sharyn Alfonsi and Norah O'Donnell join 60 Minutes as correspondents. |
| 2015 | 60 Minutes aired a story about the 2011 Grantham floods that was later found to defame four members of the Wagner family by implying they were responsible for 12 deaths during the disaster. |
| 2015 | Ross Coulthart and Liam Bartlett return to 60 Minutes, marking another shift in the program's correspondent lineup. |
| December 2015 | Charlotte Bellis completes her hosting of the show, and 60 Minutes undergoes a restructure to a new format featuring a New Zealand presenter introducing international stories. |
| 2014 | Bill Whitaker becomes a host of 60 Minutes. |
| 2013 | Jonathan LaPook joins 60 Minutes as the medical correspondent. |
| 2013 | TV Guide ranks 60 Minutes number 24 on its list of the '60 Best Series of All Time'. |
| 2013 | Peter Harvey's final year as a correspondent. |
| 2013 | The programme begins broadcasting on Sky Open (formerly Prime TV). |
| December 1 2013 | Broadcast was watched by 18.09 million viewers, retaining 66% of its NFL lead-in. |
| October 6 2013 | Broadcast drew 17.94 million viewers, making it the most watched 60 Minutes episode since December 16, 2012. |
| 2012 | Lara Logan becomes a host, serving until 2018. |
| 2012 | CBS changed the scheduled start time of 60 Minutes to 7:30 p.m. Eastern time to accommodate new NFL scheduling policies. |
| 2011 | Katie Couric serves as a correspondent from 2006 to 2011. |
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