Correspondents and producers who work for CBS News’ “60 Minutes” will soon leave the news magazine’s longtime New York office as part of a real estate consolidation occupied by some of Paramount Skydance’s most famous properties.
“60 Minutes,” CBS Sports and “Inside Edition” are among the CBS productions that have long occupied space at 555 West 57th Street. A CBS spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that all three companies plan to move to other offices in New York by early 2027. The “60 Minutes” staff will relocate across the street to the CBS Broadcast Center. The large building once served as a dairy warehouse and now houses most of CBS News, some CBS Sports production facilities, shows hosted by Drew Barrymore and John Oliver, and CNN’s “Have I Got News for You.”
CBS Sports and “Inside Edition” will move to 1515 Broadway, a large office building that has served as the New York headquarters for the company formerly known as Viacom and many cable networks, including Nickelodeon and MTV.
The office shuffle is the latest in a series of gradual downsizing of real estate by the company over the years. CBS was once headquartered in the distinctive Black Rock Building in midtown Manhattan, but chose to move out of that building after merging with Viacom in 2019. Employees were given approximately two weeks’ notice of the current move.
The staff of “60 Minutes” may be feeling the real estate crisis the most. Although the show had long enjoyed independence from other parts of CBS News, separate offices with separate quarters for correspondents and top producers only reinforced the impression that the show operated independently of the company’s other journalistic operations.
CBS News and “60 Minutes” will begin working more closely together as the programs are weakened by two different waves of corporate management.
Paramount, under previous owners the Redstone family, opted to pay President Trump a $16 million settlement after the president claimed that his “60 Minutes” interview with former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris influenced the outcome of the 2025 election. Legal experts believed the suit was a flimsy suit, but noted that Paramount was under pressure to find a buyer and feared the lawsuit would go too far. Most recently, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss brought new scrutiny to the show after she ordered a report on the plight of immigrants deported by the United States, even though the show had already promoted the segment to viewers. The report by correspondent Sharin Alfonsi, which aired a few weeks later, remained largely unchanged, except for some additional comments before and after it aired on the show.
