Another ’60 Minutes’ Veteran Exits Bari Weiss’ CBS News Amid Ongoing Talent Exodus

Another 60 Minutes staple is exiting the long-running news program.

Producer Henry Schuster announced he would be leaving the show after more than two decades at CBS, in a post shared to LinkedIn Monday, saying it was “time for a change.”

“It has been a great run at 60 Minutes and what I got to do there was extraordinary. But I have been thinking about leaving for a while now and when the opportunity presented itself in February, I took it. And finally, it is official,” Schuster wrote, suggesting that he took the buyout offered by the network following its acquisition by Skydance earlier this year.

Schuster’s departure is the latest of a slew of talent exiting the program under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss‘ leadership. And while he didn’t call Weiss out by name, the television producer did make reference to the mass exodus at the network as he shared his post-retirement plans.

“Although, it has been overshadowed by the forced departures of so many colleagues and friends at the broadcast,” he continued. “What’s next? I ain’t the retiring type, so after a bit of a break, I will think about what comes next. Maybe I will finally get my high school diploma, or see if I have another book in me. Or maybe something else….I will try to avoid being a cliche, so I’m not starting a podcast or a Substack. At least not now.”

Thanking his colleagues and connection for their support, Schuster, who worked at CNN for 25 years in addition to his time at CBS, ended the post with a telling last line: “The tide is up. Time to get out there!”

Schuster joins the likes of Sharyn Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega, Anderson Cooper, Tanya Simon and Scott Pelley, all of whom have been fired or left on their own volition after Weiss was hired as EIC by CBS’s new owner, David Ellison. The tech heir and friend of President Donald Trump acquired the network after his company, Skydance Media, bought CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global, for $8 billion last year.

Since taking the reins at CBS News, many at the network criticizing Weiss’ editorial stance as friendly to the Trump administration.

While Schuster’s departure is unexpected, it’s definitely not shocking following the firing of some of the show’s most notable correspondents, including Pelley, 68, whom, as Globe previously reported, went off on the Weiss-appointed 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton in a June 1 meeting.

“She’s murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place, she was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that,” Pelley declared about Weiss, according to The New York Times.

“She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job,” the former CBS Evening News anchor allegedly told Bilton, just one day before his firing. “The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?”

As for Weiss, according to a Status newsletter released earlier this month, the 42-year-old has been isolating herself from CBS staffers.

Per the report, instead of “being visible around the newsroom,” Weiss, who had no journalism training prior to taking on the role at CBS, has been in her own suite on the sixth floor of the company headquarters in NYC, “physically locked to outside visitors, requiring special key card access to gain admittance.”

While CBS News President Tom Cibrowski has an office in a different area of the building, Status reported Weiss has quartered herself off with deputy editor Adam Rubenstein and managing editor Charles Forelle as she steers clear of the drama at the network.