CBS News’ 60 Minutes adds Ariel Levy, a staff writer at The New Yorker, to its roster as a contributor. The change is announced by executive producer Nick Bilton, who describes Levy as an original reporter and writer who covers sensitive topics and goes to far-flung locations.
Variety and Deadline frame the hire as part of staffing and editorial changes underway at CBS News’ flagship news program. Variety notes that “60 Minutes” is being remade by Bari Weiss, CBS News’ editor in chief, and positions Levy’s addition as the latest in a series of new journalism staff joining the program. The outlets emphasize Levy’s background at New York magazine and The New Yorker, including her work analyzing sexuality in culture and profiling political and cultural figures.
