Tanya Simon
Tanya Simon is the executive producer of 60 Minutes, America's No. 1 news program for more than five decades. An award-winning journalist with more than three decades of editorial leadership, producing and reporting experience, Simon has played an integral role in some of the broadcast's highest-profile reports, profiles and investigations.
Simon assumed the role of interim executive producer in April 2025, steering 60 Minutes through the end of the 2024-25 season, which marked the broadcast's 51st straight year as the top news program on television. Over the course of the season, 60 Minutes reached a little more than one in three Americans at least once on linear and live streaming. 60 Minutes draws, on average, 8.33 million viewers every Sunday night.
Simon was executive editor of 60 Minutes for six seasons. In that role, she helped oversee the broadcast's editorial process and was key in guiding the newsmagazine's coverage of the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the Israel-Hamas war. She supervised a wide range of stories, including interviews with Prince Harry, WNBA star Caitlin Clark and comedian John Oliver as well as reports on the restoration of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, a boarding school that opened in Rwanda for Afghan girls who fled the Taliban, and billionaire tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey, whose company makes AI-powered autonomous weapons.
Previously, Simon was a senior producer, overseeing digital content for 60MinutesOvertime.com and supervising production of "60 Minutes Sports," a monthly sports-focused edition of 60 Minutes that ran on Showtime.
Simon has been contributing to 60 Minutes for most of her career. She joined the staff in 2000, working with correspondent Ed Bradley on a variety of reports including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Duke University lacrosse rape case and a rare interview with Bob Dylan.
Over the next decade, Simon went on to work with nearly all the 60 Minutes correspondents, producing stories for Steve Kroft, Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Anderson Cooper and Bob Simon, her father.
Among the news-making segments produced by Simon was the first major television interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Emmy-winning first interview with hero pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the investigation that revealed how Lance Armstrong used illegal PEDs to win bicycle races. She profiled rapper Eminem and Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White and reported extensively on the Boston Irish mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, including his capture after 16 years on the run.
She began her career at CBS News as a researcher for "48 Hours" in 1996, rising to associate producer and then producer at the news magazine before joining 60 Minutes.
Her work has earned virtually every broadcast honor, including multiple Emmy Awards, the Peabody and the DuPont-Columbia Award.
Simon holds a B.A. degree from Columbia University in 1992 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.