Bill Owens has been with CBS News for nearly four decades. After his internship in 1988, he became a senior producer for the White House beat and later, senior broadcast producer for CBS Evening News.

Minutes’ top journalist Scott Pelley condemned CBS parent company Paramount in an on-air rebuke of the network. Pelley directly criticized the network in the first episode since the program’s executive producer,

Bill Owens, the executive producer of "60 MInutes," said he would quit the show rather than allow Paramount Global to interfere with its independence