Yet its audience is among the oldest in
television, with a median age of over 65, the
Nielsen company said. The stories and topics
on the new streaming show will be geared to a
younger, more diverse diverse audience.
Although there are no plans for the “Plus”
stories to appear on TV, building a new team
of correspondents and producers has benefits
for the news division, said Bill Owens, executive
producer of “60 Minutes.”
“We want to grow the bench,” said Owens, who
got his start as a newsmagazine producer for
CBS on the “60 Minutes II” television spinoff,
which aired from 1999 to 2005.
J Balvin has a huge following, but to put that
profile on the TV version of the show, Acevedo
would probably have to spend considerable time
explaining to viewers who the star is, Owens said.
Acevedo, who’s worked at Univision, said he
grew familiar with “60 Minutes” when his father
watched reruns of the newsmagazine on a
Mexican cable station. Acevedo said he wanted
to become a journalist after watching Scott
Pelley’s reporting on the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
“People always recognize the ticking clock,”
he said.
He’s already at work on stories about Latin
America and immigration. “60 Minutes”
requires its correspondents to be generalists,
but team members also bring a specific
expertise, Blakely said.
Doane has been a foreign correspondent at CBS,
Segall covered technology at CNN and Lowery
won a Pulitzer Prize at The Washington Post for
coverage of fatal police shootings.