“60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager (Richard Drew/AP)Jeff Fager, the executive producer of the flagship CBS news program “60 Minutes,” has left the network. Fager said in a separate statement that the allegations in the New Yorker are “false” and that the decision by CBS was unrelated. An executive producer of “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” in the late 1990s, Fager took over the same role at “60 Minutes” before becoming chairman of CBS News in 2011. He returned as full-time executive producer at “60 Minutes” in 2015, and this fall would have marked his 15th as chief of the news magazine program. “We need to be such a place.”Read more:Stephen Colbert wasted no time shaming former CBS chief Les Moonves over sexual misconduct allegations

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2018 18:47 UTC