Katie Couric says she was “gaslit” by a CBS producer during her 2006-2011 stint on “60 Minutes,” news outlets report.
During an appearance Wednesday on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, the 69-year-old journalist said executive producer Jeff Fager repeatedly reassigned her story pitches to male colleagues, saying he “just didn’t like me” and felt she was “muddying the waters” by coming from a competing network, USA Today reports.
Ms. Couric hosted NBC’s “Today” show from 1991 to 2006 before she joined CBS.
She noted pitching a “60 Minutes” profile of an up-and-coming Lady Gaga as the next Madonna, only to discover the interview was reassigned to Anderson Cooper without anyone informing her directly.
The same pattern played out when a planned interview with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quietly handed to correspondent Scott Pelley. Ms. Couric learned of it after the State Department began receiving conflicting calls about the interview.
“Talk about getting gaslit,” Ms. Couric said, according to USA Today.
The revelations come amid broader turmoil at “60 Minutes,” where several correspondents have recently been let go, including Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega and Scott Pelley, who was fired in June after publicly criticizing the new CBS News leadership.
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