60 Minutes executive producer leaves program over journalistic independence

Bill Owens says in staff memo it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it'

Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, says he is leaving the flagship news program because he lost his journalistic independence.

In a staff memo obtained by the New York Times, Owens said that over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience".