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Big Nick Energy

In tapping tech columnist/aspiring screenwriter Nick Bilton to run ‘60 Minutes,’ CBS’s Bari Weiss is once again playing the outsider card. But what exactly qualifies him to remake America’s top-rated news show? Just ask him.

Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton speaks at he Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, 2018. Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
May 29, 2026

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On Thursday morning, minutes after Bari Weiss announced her audacious and controversial overhaul of 60 Minutes, I got a call from the show’s newly appointed executive producer. Nick Bilton, as you may know, is a former New York Times R&D savant turned tech reporter, Vanity Fair writer, and author who left journalism a few years back to pursue a career as a Hollywood screenwriter and documentarian. His credits include Fake Famous, an HBO documentary about Instagram celebrity, and Biggest Heist Ever, a Netflix feature about a bitcoin scheme. He’s also working on a Martin Scorsese project.