‘60 Minutes’ Adds The New Yorker’s Ariel Levy as CBS Series Expands Contributor Staff

CBS said Monday that it is expanding the newsroom staff for its long-running Sunday-night news magazine, adding Ariel Levy as a contributor to the CBS series “60 Minutes.” The announcement was made in connection with the program’s continued efforts to add additional writers and reporters to its reporting team.

The Hollywood Reporter reported that executive producer Nick Bilton praised Levy, describing her as an “astonishingly original writer and reporter.” In the same announcement, Bilton’s comments positioned Levy’s work as a fit for the publication and storytelling standards associated with the “60 Minutes” platform.

The addition reflects a staffing move at a time when “60 Minutes” continues to refresh its bench of contributors while maintaining its format centered on reported features. Levy’s role was described by the outlet as a contributor position, indicating work that will feed into the series’ editorial pipeline rather than a scripted or recurring on-air assignment.

Levy is identified in the report by her association with The New Yorker, underscoring the crossover between major magazine longform journalism and broadcast investigative and enterprise reporting. The update places a magazine writer and reporter inside a larger broadcast production structure that relies on reporting, sourcing, editing, and fact-checking workflows.

While the report focused on the announcement and the executive producer’s remarks, it did not lay out, in the information provided here, specific topics or segments that Levy will cover for “60 Minutes.” The details of her initial assignments and timelines were therefore not specified in the material summarized for this story.

For viewers, the staffing update may affect how quickly new reported packages move through production and how the program balances enterprise reporting with documentary-style storytelling. For the industry, it illustrates how established magazines continue to supply talent to broadcast newsrooms.

The “60 Minutes” staffing announcement arrives through CBS’s ongoing personnel and editorial decisions, and it will be followed by additional reporting on Levy’s first contributions to the series once they are published or aired.