{"id":37203,"date":"2026-06-07T07:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/can-nick-bilton-lead-60-minutes-former-colleagues-offer-sharply-different-views-18\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:46:24","slug":"can-nick-bilton-lead-60-minutes-former-colleagues-offer-sharply-different-views-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/can-nick-bilton-lead-60-minutes-former-colleagues-offer-sharply-different-views-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Nick Bilton lead \u201860 Minutes\u2019? Former colleagues offer sharply different views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-graf\">After \u201c60 Minutes\u201d executive producer <strong>Nick Bilton\u2019s <\/strong>hiring<strong> <\/strong>led to a meltdown this week inside CBS News, a key question emerged: Is the broadcast novice qualified to lead one of America\u2019s historically top-rated network news programs? I spoke to 11 of Bilton\u2019s former colleagues to find out, and their takes ranged from \u201cAbsolutely!\u201d to \u201cLord, no!\u201d  <\/p>\n<div class=\"styles_recommendedIntersectionRef__vQEf5\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"styles_recommendedIntersectionRef__vQEf5\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After \u201c60 Minutes\u201d executive producer Nick Bilton\u2019s hiring led to a meltdown this week inside CBS News, a key question emerged: Is the broadcast novice qualified to lead one of America\u2019s historically top-rated network news programs? I spoke to 11 of Bilton\u2019s former colleagues to find out, and their takes ranged from \u201cAbsolutely!\u201d to \u201cLord, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanfinancecore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}