‘60 Minutes’ Adds The New Yorker’s Ariel Levy as CBS Series Keeps Staffing Up

CBS’s 60 Minutes adds another high-profile hire after firings and exits

With the new season set to premiere Sept. 13, the broadcast team faces a compressed summer production schedule

The Joy of ‘60’

In the coming weeks, I’m told, Bari Weiss’s CBS News will embark on an aggressive marketing push to promote the newly revamped 60 Minutes, which is now less than a month away from its September 13 debut. Sources familiar with the plans say that CBS will blanket the airwaves and major markets with a multipronged, […] The post The Joy of ‘60’ appeared first on Puck.

'60 Minutes' Adds Longtime New Yorker Writer Ariel Levy as Contributor

Ariel Levy, the longtime New Yorker writer and National Magazine Award winner, is joining “60 Minutes” as a contributor for the CBS newsmagazine’s upcoming 59th season. “Ariel is an astonishingly original writer and reporter, fearlessly going to far-flung places and exploring sensitive topics that have driven consequential debates,” “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Nick Bilton wrote in a Monday memo to staff obtained by TheWrap. Levy has spent ne…

New Yorker's Ariel Levy To Join '60 Minutes' As A Contributor

Ariel Levy, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is joining CBS News’ 60 Minutes as a contributor. Executive Producer Nick Bilton wrote, “Ariel is an astonishingly original writer and reporter, fearlessly going to far-flung places and exploring sensitive topics that have driven consequential debates. For nearly three decades, first at New York magazine and then at The […]

‘60 Minutes’ Adds The New Yorker’s Ariel Levy as CBS Series Keeps Staffing Up

'60' EP Nick Bilton praised Levy as an “astonishingly original writer and reporter” in announcing her addition as a contributor to staff Monday.

Ariel Levy, a New Yorker Staff Writer, Joins ’60 Minutes’ as Contributor

Ariel Levy, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine who has analyzed sexuality in culture and profiled a number of political and cultural newsmakers, will join “60 Minutes” as a contributor, the latest journalist to join the show’s ranks as it is being remade by Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News. “Ariel is an astonishingly original writer and reporter, fearlessly going to far-flung places and exploring sensitive topics that have dri…