The Candy Factory—I: Inventing “60 Minutes”
Part 1 of E. J. Kahn, Jr.,’s Profile of the program, from 1982. By creating a new kind of news show, featuring the star correspondents Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, and Harry Reasoner, the producer Don Hewitt ushered in the infotainment age.
E. J. Kahn, Jr., "The Candy Factory: Inventing '60 Minutes'" (Part I): television newsmagazine origins, how the stopwatch began.