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Cowan had a screening with EP Jeff Fager and executive editor Bill Owens this morning, leaving little room (or time) for error.
Cowan had a screening with EP Jeff Fager and executive editor Bill Owens this morning, leaving little room (or time) for error.
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When Jeff Fager and David Rhodes took over CBS’ news division in 2011, he made it a point to tell staff that the division could be working together more closely. “60 Minutes,” where Fager remains executive producer, has long maintained its own offices and its own staff, away from the hustle and bustle of the newsroom.
When Jeff Fager and David Rhodes took over CBS’ news division in 2011, he made it a point to tell staff that the division could be working together more closely. “60 Minutes,” where Fager remains executive producer, has long maintained its own offices and its own staff, away from the hustle and bustle of the newsroom.
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The executive is Jeff Fager, who was one of the subjects of Joe Hagan’s recent profile of “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan.
The executive is Jeff Fager, who was one of the subjects of Joe Hagan’s recent profile of “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan.
Mar 6, 2014: CBS News has named veteran Bill Whitaker a 60 Minutes correspondent, it was announced today by Jeff Fager, the executive producer of the newsmag and the chairman of CBS News. Whitaker, who has been based in Los Angeles, will move to the New York area and begin appearing in the fall on the CBS news magazine. (SOURCE: Lisa De Moraes: Deadline: "Bill Whitaker Joins ‘60 Minutes’ As Correspondent")
Jeff Fager (born December 10, 1954) is the Chairman of CBS News and the Executive Producer of 60 Minutes, the hour-long CBS news magazine created in 1968. Career Fager graduated from Colgate University in 1977. As a teen, he spent some of his years in the Town of Wellesley and graduated from Wellesley High School in the class of 1973. He began his career in broadcast news in Boston and joined CBS News in 1982 from San Francisco, California station, KPIX-TV, where he was a broadcast producer.
Fager then became an Executive Producer of The CBS Evening News and held senior and field producer positions for that broadcast and other CBS News entities, including 60 Minutes; he soon became an Executive Producer of 60 Minutes II. In June 2004, he assumed the position of Executive Producer of 60 Minutes. In February 2011, it was announced that Jeff Fager would lead the news division of CBS as Chairman of CBS News, a newly created position. In tandem with the newly appointed president David Rhodes, Fager would head CBS News while continuing to executive produce 60 Minutes. Since stepping in as Chairman of CBS News, Fager has vowed to "restore CBS News to where it should be, where it needs to be," using the original reporting and storytelling of 60 Minutes as a benchmark for its other flagship news programs.
Fager then became an Executive Producer of The CBS Evening News and held senior and field producer positions for that broadcast and other CBS News entities, including 60 Minutes; he soon became an Executive Producer of 60 Minutes II. In June 2004, he assumed the position of Executive Producer of 60 Minutes. In February 2011, it was announced that Jeff Fager would lead the news division of CBS as Chairman of CBS News, a newly created position. In tandem with the newly appointed president David Rhodes, Fager would head CBS News while continuing to executive produce 60 Minutes. Since stepping in as Chairman of CBS News, Fager has vowed to "restore CBS News to where it should be, where it needs to be," using the original reporting and storytelling of 60 Minutes as a benchmark for its other flagship news programs.
