Katie Couric says she was pushed out of ’60 Minutes’ interviews

June 24, 2026, 10:44 p.m. ET

Katie Couric is able to speak about “the actually powerful conditions” she handled as a correspondent for “60 Minutes” greater than 20 years in the past.

The 69-year-old journalist and founding father of Katie Couric Media shared her experiences of getting her tales assigned to male reporters throughout an episode of “Name Her Daddy,” which was launched June 24.

The top of “60 Minutes,” government producer Jeff Fager, “simply did not like me,” Couric informed host Alex Cooper. She speculated that “he wasn’t actually consulted about bringing me over” and thought she was “muddying the waters” by “seeing someone from a distinct community.”

Throughout her time contributing to the newsmagazine, which coincided along with her anchoring duties as “CBS Night Information” from 2006 to 2011, Couric pitched a profile of an up-and-coming Girl Gaga, predicting she would change into “the following Madonna.” Fager initially handed on the concept, then a 12 months later expressed curiosity in spotlighting the popstar.

Couric stated her new proposed angle about Gaga’s Catholic faculty training was accepted. However when she went to the studio, she discovered she would not be doing the function, in spite of everything.

“They’d a whiteboard at CBS, they usually had the title of the correspondent and the story subsequent to it. And I see: Girl Gaga, Anderson Cooper,” Couric stated. Cooper’s interview with then 25-year-old Gaga aired in February 2011.

“It made me loopy,” Couric confessed. “However that occurred once more with Hillary Clinton.”

A consultant for Fager couldn’t be reached on the time of publication.

Katie Couric’s Hillary Clinton interview was reassigned to Scott Pelley

Although Fager allegedly requested her to take a seat down with former Secretary of State Clinton, Couric quickly realized the State Division was getting combined messages on who was main the cost on the “60 Minutes” interview.

“Out of the blue, my producer’s saying, ‘The State Division known as. They’re very confused as a result of Scott Pelley and his group have been calling about Hillary,” Couric recalled. “So I’m going to Jeff Fager and I say, ‘I assumed you wished me to do Hillary. You informed me explicitly that you just wished to assign that story to me.’ And he stated, ‘Yeah, we determined to alter issues up.'”

“It made me insane,” she admitted. Pelley’s section with Clinton aired in Could 2010.

She took situation with such selections taking place “behind my again” and known as out Fager for missing “the decency to name me and say, ‘Guess what? We determined to reassign the story, and that is why.”

“Discuss getting gaslit,” Couric added.

CBS Information’ previous controversies, from sexism to firings

Fager executive-produced “60 Minutes” from 2004 till 2018, a tenure that overlapped along with his position as chairman of CBS Information, which began in 2011.

He was fired in 2018 for a threatening message he’d despatched to a CBS reporter who coated inside misconduct allegations, communication he’d described as a “harsh” demand “for equity.” On the time, Fager was additionally going through accusations of inappropriate habits and protecting up others’ sexual misconduct. He denied the claims.

Earlier than Couric, fellow “60 Minutes” correspondent Meredith Vieira additionally alleged she’d skilled sexism whereas employed by CBS.

As of this 12 months, neither Pelley nor Cooper is reporting for “60 Minutes.” Pelley turned embroiled in an upheaval at “60 Minutes” when he was fired on June 2 for criticizing CBS Information management. He was axed after a heated workers assembly during which he’d accused CBS Information editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the information establishment and rebuking newly minted government producer Nick Bilton for his “slender” TV information {qualifications}.