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Lesley Stahl will interview President-elect Donald Trump on Friday at his home in New York City about his election.

Margaret Sullivan says that Lesley Stahl blew an important chance to call Donald Trump out as a liar on his Iraq War position in her 60 Minutes interview Sunday. “Stahl — busy trying to herd the other rhetorical cats set loose in the interview — did not say what she should have,” she writes, kicking off what’s likely to be a healthy streak of meta-criticism on the media’s closer scrutiny (or lack thereof) of Trump’s claims.

His death comes just days after the CBS News veteran announced his retirement from 60 Minutes and the newsmagazine honored him with an hour-long tribute last Sunday.

The network said Wednesday it will mark the occasion with an hour-long special on the 84-year-old Safer’s career Sunday after the regular edition of 60 Minutes. “Morley has had a brilliant career as a reporter and as one of the most significant figures in CBS News history, on our broadcast and in many of our lives,” said Jeff Fager, the show’s executive producer. 

The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched an internal probe to find out who snuck a hidden camera into its headquarters for a 60 Minutes piece, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation.

CBS is pushing back against an allegation in one of the newly released Hillary Clinton emails that the State Department had successfully planted questions for a 60 Minutes interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.

RTDNA Executive Director Mike Cavender says the passing of 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon reminds us all too starkly of who and what really matters in the world of journalism.

The longtime 60 Minutes Correspondent died Wednesday night in a car crash in New York. “It is such a tragedy made worse because we lost him in a car accident, a man who has escaped more difficult situations than almost any journalist in modern times. Bob was a reporter’s reporter,” Jeff Fager, executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in a statement.

NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft has issued an apology for an extramarital affair that he calls a “serious lapse” in judgment, a “personal failure” and […]

Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of 60 Minutes, today announced his intention to step down from his role as chairman and to return to full focus on running the newsmagazine, effective at the beginning of the new year. At that time, David Rhodes, who has been president of CBS News since 2011, will assume sole leadership of the division.

It’s rare for a 60 Minutes correspondent not to introduce their own story. Sunday, Lara Logan, back for her second story this season, reported from Libera on the Ebola outbreak, and the American medical professionals trying to help contain it. Scott Pelley introduced Logan’s story adding that she was on a 21-day self-quarantine.

The award and $5,000 cash prize from RTDNA is in recognition of the show’s Lethal Medicine report on tainted steroid injections from a now defunct pharmacy that caused a meningitis outbreak deemed responsible for 64 deaths and hundreds of illnesses.

During an interview with photojournalist Matthew Schrier about his captivity in Syria for a story that aired last November, Schrier had talked about being kept in a cell with U.S. journalist Peter Theo Curtis and how his fellow American helped him escape through a window to freedom. Those segments were edited out at the request of Curtis’ family. Now that Curtis has been released, CBS News is making outtakes of the Schrier interview where Curtis was discussed available on the 60 Minutes website.

CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said Wednesday that Logan has returned to 60 Minutes. She had no details on when the correspondent resumed work and what type of stories she is working on.

Lara Logan is still expected to return to CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” according to two people familiar with the situation, though the exact timeline remains unclear. Logan’s status with the program came into question after the publication of an article in New York magazine which said her return “in recent weeks has not appeared certain” in the aftermath of an embarrassing flub she made in an Oct. 26 segment about U.S. operations in Benghazi, Libya.

The question swirling inside CBS News is whether Lara Logan will return after an indefinite leave of absence that followed last fall’s deeply flawed 60 Minutes report on the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Since then, the trajectory of her career, along with that of CBS’s flagship news show, changed abruptly.

Taylor won a Peabody Award for a 60 Minutes story on an improbably orchestra in the heart of the Congo. He had been battling pancreatic cancer since May.

CBS News veteran Bill Whitaker will make his debut on the newsmagazine in the fall.

Vinod Khosla has issued a harsh rebuke to 60 Minutes a week after the news magazine broadcast a report saying that Silicon Valley and Washington have little to show for their investments in clean technology. In an open letter to both 60 Minutes and its network, CBS, Khosla said a Jan. 5 segment for which he was interviewed “grossly misrepresented the state of the sustainable energy industry.”

Lara Logan and Max McClellan, the 60 Minutes journalists who were put on a leave of absence following their now-retracted report on Benghazi, are set to return to the CBS newsmagazine early next year.

The veteran newsman says the 60 Minutes correspondent’s whole record should be considered.

If the ’60 Minutes’ segment Sunday night on Amazon had been a drone, you’d have to say it badly missed its target. Rieder argues the news program gave Amazon a prime platform, but no tough questions, especially about the numerous logistical and regulatory issues facing the use of drones.

A huge lead-in from football plus lots of opportunity to promote 60 Minutes during yesterday’s NFL and Saturday’s college football games led to a strong night for CBS’s long-running newsmagazine. 60 Minutes averaged a 3.4 adults 18-49 rating in the 8 to 9 p.m. timeslot. CBS’s entire Sunday schedule was delayed by nearly an hour because of football overrun into the 7 p.m. hour, which pushed the rest of the network’s shows back.

The journalist and producer Max McClellan are on leave from the CBS news magazine for an undetermined amount of time, according to a Tuesday memo from news chief Jeff Fager.

The Network makes the first admission that it will probe more deeply after offering an apology for Lara Logan’s report.

During brief remarks at the end of the hour correspondent Lara Logan said “60 Minutes” was misled and made a mistake in its reporting in an Oct. 27 story on the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan admitted on Friday morning that she and the news magazine had made a “mistake” in their reporting of a controversial story about the Benghazi attacks. A video copy of that story was taken off the 60 Minutes website late Thursday.

Lara Logan’s story relied on an interview with a man who may have lied. Says CBS News, “We are currently looking into this serious matter to determine if he misled us, and if so, we will make a correction.”

A 60 Minutes correspondent also said the report should have acknowledged that a book written by a man she interviewed was being published by a CBS subsidiary.

The president’s remark was not included in a Sept. 23 60 Minutes package or a subsequent one.