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. A second New Yorker article published Sunday included more allegations against Moonves of sexual assault, harassment and intimidation. 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.

Source: National Post September 13, 2018 14:37 UTC