Another 60 Minutes veteran leaves Bari Weiss' CBS News as exodus of talent continues
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 30 June 2026 15:48 EDT
A longtime producer has announced his departure from 60 Minutes — lamenting that his exit from the flagship CBS News program was “overshadowed” by the removal of his colleagues under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’ leadership. Henry Schuster, who had worked for 60 Minutes since 2007, shared the news of his departure on LinkedIn, writing in a Monday post that it was “time for a change” and that he had been “thinking about leaving for a while.”
“It has been a great run at 60 Minutes and what I got to do there was extraordinary. But I have been thinking about leaving for a while now and when the opportunity presented itself in February, I took it. And finally, it is official,” he wrote, suggesting that he took a buyout when they were offered by the network earlier this year.
Schuster alluded to the recent staffing shakeups under Weiss, whose “anti-woke” media outlet, The Free Press, was bought by CBS parent company, Paramount, last year. Weiss, who has no broadcast journalism experience, fired executive producer Tanya Simon and correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi. She then hired tech journalist Nick Bilton as executive producer and fired correspondent Scott Pelley after the two clashed.
While Schuster was leaving on his own accord, he noted his exit “has been overshadowed by the forced departures of so many colleagues and friends at the broadcast.”
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