New York Daily News "I wanted to be a part of '60 Minutes' since I was in high school," says
Byron Pitts. "For me, '60 Minutes' is to broadcast journalism what the Yankees are to baseball: It's the gold standard." Executive producer
Jeff Fager tells
Richard Huff that Pitts "is not at all shy about saying, 'I should be on this broadcast, how come it hasn't happened yet?'" It has now; Pitts will do at least six "60M" pieces a year.
