After a whirlwind year of shake-ups at CBS, the announcement of new 60 Minutes correspondents sees one San Antonio TV personality moving up not long after her Alamo City-born colleague was fired.

Norah O’Donnell, previously a senior correspondent for CBS News and contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes, has been promoted to a full-time 60 Minutes correspondent position. It comes after she stepped down from her lead anchor position at CBS Evening News in January 2025.

Announced by 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton on Tuesday, the lineup of correspondents and contributors also includes conservative New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat; documentarian and author Sebastian Junger; filmmaker and former VICE and CNN staffer Gianna Toboni; and British broadcaster and politician Trevor Phillips. Veteran correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim remain with the show, which first aired in 1968.

O’Donnell’s San Antonio ties go deep. She moved to the city as a young child and attended multiple schools in the NEISD system, including Serna Elementary and Garner Middle School. She graduated from MacArthur High School in 1991 and isn’t shy about her roots. Back in December, she posted a photo with fellow San Antonian George Strait when the country singer was honored with a 2025 Kennedy Center Medallion. 

“We’re both up from San Antone,” she wrote on Instagram.

The news of O’Donnell’s promotion comes not long after San Antonio-born journalist Scott Pelley was fired from 60 Minutes following a deep clash with CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. In April 2025, he criticized the broadcaster’s parent company for beginning to “supervise our content in new ways” amid the merger with Skydance Media. Pelley also said on-air that longtime producer Bill Owens quit due to feeling like “he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.” Just before his firing in June, Pelley reportedly accused Weiss of “murdering” the show, saying she was “brought in to kill it.”

Bilton’s predecessor, Tanya Simon, alongside correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, were fired shortly before Pelley.