{"id":378112,"date":"2026-06-28T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378112\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:29:24","slug":"katie-couric-calls-out-former-boss-at-cbs-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378112\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Couric calls out former boss at CBS’ ’60 Minutes’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Veteran broadcast journalist Katie Couric<\/a> has leveled sharp criticism at CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d<\/a> detailing a culture of systemic sexism and marginalization she says she experienced during her tenure at the prestigious newsmagazine. <\/p>\n

On this week\u2019s episode of the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast<\/a>, Couric, 69, described incidents during her time at \u201c60 Minutes\u201d when her story ideas were reassigned to her male counterparts. She described the circumstances as \u201creally tough situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Emmy-winning journalist said she suspected early on that Jeff Fager, the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d executive producer at the time, didn\u2019t take a liking to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think maybe because he wasn\u2019t really consulted about bringing me over,\u201d said Couric. \u201cI was sort of seen as somebody from a different network coming in and sort of muddying the waters. I hadn\u2019t come up in the CBS system. So I don\u2019t know, he just didn\u2019t like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Couric started her run at the newsmagazine as a correspondent and as an anchor at CBS News in 2006, after spending 15 years co-hosting NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show. Her role at CBS made her the first female solo anchor of a national weeknight news broadcast. She stayed with the network for five years before taking on a new role as special correspondent for ABC News.<\/p>\n

Fager remained at \u201c60 Minutes\u201d<\/a> from 2004 to 2018. He also served as the chairman of CBS News. He was eventually fired for allegedly sending a \u201charsh\u201d message to a CBS reporter.<\/a> At the time, he was also facing accusations of ignoring inappropriate behavior at \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d He previously denied the claims. CBS could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Trouble first came to a head when Couric pitched a profile of the rising pop star Lady Gaga. Fager had initially turned down the idea until he decided to pursue the story a year later, as Gaga had gained more notoriety.<\/p>\n

Couric said she had proposed a fresh angle on Gaga\u2019s Catholic school upbringing, but when she arrived for the interview, she discovered her name had been replaced with Anderson Cooper\u2019s. His interview with Gaga aired in February 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt made me crazy,\u201d Couric said.<\/p>\n

A similar situation occurred once again when Couric was set to interview then\u2013Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The confusion began when the State Department reached out to Couric, wondering why fellow correspondent Scott Pelley\u2019s<\/a> team was inquiring about Clinton.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I go to Jeff Fager, and I say, \u2018I thought you wanted me to do Hillary. You told me explicitly that you wanted to assign that story to me,\u2019\u201d Couric said. \u201cAnd he said, \u2018Yeah, we decided to change things up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Couric said she was frustrated with Fager, for repeatedly going \u201cbehind [her] back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, without even the decency to call me and say, \u2018Guess what? We decided to reassign the story, and this is why,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cTalk about getting gaslit. I mean to me, that is the definition of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Couric isn\u2019t the only former \u201c60 Minutes\u201d to call out sexism at the newsmagazine. Meredith Vieira, who worked as a correspondent in the late 1980s and early 1990s, said in 2018, that she\u2019d experienced sexism at CBS.<\/p>\n

In the last few months, \u201c60 Minutes\u201d has undergone a massive upheaval. Under CBS News editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, several correspondents, including Scott Pelley, and the program\u2019s top producers were fired. Anderson Cooper<\/a> also recently resigned from his post at the newsmagazine. With the upcoming season slated to begin in September, the program is currently under pressure to replenish its ranks.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran broadcast journalist Katie Couric has leveled sharp criticism at CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d detailing a culture of systemic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[29454,4596,47700,153037,139009,137817,48,52,51,11401,47,50,49,47635,153035,6049,3044,153038,153036,315,72],"class_list":["post-378112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-cbs","tag-cbs-news","tag-correspondent","tag-fellow-correspondent-scott-pelley","tag-jeff-fager","tag-katie-couric","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lady-gaga","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-minutes","tag-prestigious-newsmagazine","tag-role","tag-story","tag-story-idea","tag-systemic-sexism","tag-time","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}