CBS's "60 Minutes" opened its 59th season with Bari Weiss at the helm, a premiere that drew widespread attention from media outlets, according to Yahoo. The episode aired without correspondent Scott Pelley, USA Today reported, marking a notable change for the long-running program.
Coverage of the debut came from several major publications. The New York Times framed the broadcast as the start of what it called the Bari Weiss era at the show. The Washington Post described the program as beginning anew after a summer of turmoil. Business Insider, meanwhile, gathered reactions to the relaunch from commentators it deemed knowledgeable.
Yahoo's report focused on how figures across the media world responded to a premiere that had been heavily promoted in advance. The outlet's summary pointed readers to the Times, USA Today, the Post and Business Insider for fuller accounts of the episode and the reaction to it.
The available reporting does not detail the segments that aired or the specific reactions offered by individual critics. What is clear from the coverage is that Weiss's arrival has made the program a subject of close attention across newsrooms, and that Pelley's absence from the season opener was treated as a significant development by at least one outlet.
How the revamped broadcast performs in the coming weeks, and how the press continues to assess it, will be the next test of the new direction at the CBS newsmagazine.
