AWARD-WINNING REPORTER LAURIE SEGALL NAMED CORRESPONDENT FOR “60 IN 6,” THE NEW “60 MINUTES” PROGRAM TO LAUNCH ON QUIBI

AWARD-WINNING REPORTER LAURIE SEGALL NAMED CORRESPONDENT FOR “60 IN 6,” THE NEW “60 MINUTES” PROGRAM TO LAUNCH ON QUIBI

Laurie Segall has been named correspondent for the new 60 MINUTES Quibi program 60 IN 6, 60 MINUTES Executive Producer Bill Owens announced today.

The award-winning journalist first gained notoriety by identifying and interviewing founders of disruptive tech companies and examining their impact on society. Segall’s insightful reporting interprets a future where technology is redefining what it means to be human.

Most recently, Segall founded Dot Dot Dot, a news and entertainment company that explores the intersection of tech and humanity. Previously, she was CNN’s senior technology correspondent and the editor-at-large for CNN Tech.

“Laurie gives us an instant advantage on one of the most important beats of our time,” said Owens. “She is a font of ideas and brings a unique voice and experience to 60 IN 6 and CBS News.”

Segall said, “We’re in a really fascinating moment in tech, and I think it’s important that we ask questions that don’t have easy answers. I couldn’t be more excited to explore some of these stories with the 60 MINUTES team. As someone who has covered technology for most of my career, I’m excited to be combining world-class journalism with an emerging platform like Quibi.”

Segall, 34, is a veteran in digital short-form reporting. She is the host of the recently launched podcast “First Contact,” produced by her media company, Dot Dot Dot. She will continue in her roles as CEO and executive producer at Dot Dot Dot, while serving as a 60 IN 6 correspondent, and will make regular appearances on CBS THIS MORNING.

Segall spent a decade covering technology at CNN before leaving to form Dot Dot Dot. She reported for all CNN platforms and was recognized early when Forbes named her to the magazine’s “30 Under 30” list at age 26. In 2017 Segall produced and reported the first series made for CNN Digital’s online streaming platform CNNgo. Her “Mostly Human with Laurie Segall” series was dubbed “the real-life ‘Black Mirror.’” Two years before, she won a Gracie for “Revenge Porn: The Cyberwar on Women,” which aired across CNN platforms. Her work championing women has also won several EPPY Awards. Segall has covered the rise of the world’s largest tech companies, and her reporting has earned her the respect of Silicon Valley’s leading entrepreneurs. She has interviewed leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey and Bill Gates. 

Segall joined the cable network out of college and soon began writing for CNN Money and gained experience field producing breaking news for Hurricanes Sandy and Irene. She has consistently used technology to investigate national news stories. During the Boston Marathon bombing, she reconstructed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s deleted Instagram account. And later, she tracked down an exclusive interview with Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro’s daughter.

She is the third correspondent to be named to 60 IN 6. She joins Enrique Acevedo and Wesley Lowery in the dedicated unit that will produce a weekly program of approximately six minutes per episode. The original 60 MINUTES content will run exclusively on Quibi and be targeted to its audience of mobile device users.

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About 60 MINUTES

60 MINUTES, the most successful American television broadcast in history, began its 52nd season in September. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 is still a hit in 2019. 60 MINUTES makes Nielsen’s weekly top 10 nearly every week among all broadcast television programs, and is the #1 most-watched television news program each week.

About Quibi

Quibi is a mobile-first media technology platform bringing together the best of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Quibi is the first entertainment platform built for easy, on-the-go mobile viewing, allowing today’s leading studios and creative talent to tell original stories in an entirely new way. For more information, visit www.quibi.com

PULITZER-PRIZE WINNER WESLEY LOWERY NAMED CORRESPONDENT FOR “60 IN 6,” THE NEW “60 MINUTES” PROGRAM TO LAUNCH ON QUIBI

PULITZER-PRIZE WINNER WESLEY LOWERY NAMED CORRESPONDENT FOR “60 IN 6,” THE NEW “60 MINUTES” PROGRAM TO LAUNCH ON QUIBI

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Wesley Lowery has been named correspondent for the new 60 MINUTES program 60 IN 6, Bill Owens, 60 MINUTES executive producer, announced today. 60 IN 6 will launch in the spring on the new mobile device streaming service Quibi.

An author and national correspondent for The Washington Post, Lowery has distinguished himself as one of the country’s foremost journalists on race, law enforcement and justice.

He also has appeared regularly on CNN as a political contributor; his reporting and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, among other outlets.

“Wesley is an extremely talented writer and reporter who has covered many of the country’s most important stories during his career,” said Owens. “He’s an unbelievable asset to our team.”

“Each step of this journey realizes the dream I’ve had since grammar school – to report the news and tell stories that matter. To be a part of this innovative new platform adds another level of fulfillment for me as a journalist, and opens the door for me to master a new, vital type of storytelling,” said Lowery.

Lowery led the “Fatal Force” project for The Washington Post which examined police shootings across the U.S., revealing patterns and creating an original database. The 2015 investigation won the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for national reporting.

Lowery is the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement. The best-seller was widely acclaimed and won the young reporter a Los Angeles Times book prize.

In 2012 Lowery was a reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times, before joining The Boston Globe as a general assignment reporter and contributing to the paper’s Pulitzer-Prize winning coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing. He joined The Washington Post in 2014, the same year he was named emerging journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Lowery began his career in journalism at Ohio University, where he was editor-in-chief of the independent campus newspaper, The Post. During this period, he also served as an intern for The Detroit News, The Columbus Dispatch and The Wall Street Journal. Lowery earned his undergraduate degree from the university’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.

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About 60 MINUTES

60 MINUTES, the most successful American television broadcast in history, began its 52nd season in September. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 is still a hit in 2020. 60 MINUTES makes Nielsen’s weekly top 10 nearly every week among all broadcast television programs, and is the #1 most-watched television news program each week.

About Quibi

Quibi is a mobile-first media technology platform bringing together the best of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Quibi is the first entertainment platform built for easy, on-the-go mobile viewing, allowing today’s leading studios and creative talent to tell original stories in an entirely new way. For more information, visit www.quibi.com.