Seth Doane, a Peabody Award-winning CBS News reporter, will be a correspondent for 60 IN 6, 60 MINUTES Executive Producer Bill Owens announced today. The new 60 MINUTES program will offer original reporting from around the world to stream on Quibi, the unique mobile-device streaming service that debuts on April 6.

“Seth has covered some of the most important stories of the last decade, and I can’t wait for him to start reporting for 60 IN 6,” said Owens. “Seth’s approach to telling stories is a perfect match for what we will do on Quibi.”

Doane is a veteran video journalist who began as a foreign correspondent 20 years ago with Channel One News, where he won the Peabody Award while still in his mid-20s. Reporting for the CBS EVENING NEWS in 2018, he was the only U.S. network correspondent to report from Syria as the U.S.-led coalition launched airstrikes on Syrian targets after President Bashar al-Assad allegedly used a chemical weapon. Doane has covered stories in more than 70 countries.

He has been a regular contributor to CBS SUNDAY MORNING and will continue to do so in a new formal role as correspondent for the highly regarded news program. “This dual role is a journalist’s dream,” said Doane. “I’m thrilled to get the opportunity to work for Bill and Rand, who produce two of the top programs in television news.” Rand Morrison, executive producer of SUNDAY MORNING, said “Seth is a superb fit for SUNDAY MORNING. His reporting is smart and sensitive – and he brings a signature style to every story he does.”

Doane lives in Rome, Italy, where he has recently covered the Vatican, traveled with the pope and reported on earthquakes, terror and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean for all of CBS News’ platforms. For three years before that, he served as CBS News’ Asia correspondent in Beijing. That posting took Doane into the South China Sea to report China’s island-building efforts and inside the closed-off North Korea twice. In Japan, he reported from inside reactor four at the nuclear power plant in tsunami-torn Fukushima.

Doane won his Peabody for a series he shot, produced and wrote, in which he explained the civil war and genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan to Channel One’s audience of high school students. Before joining CBS News in 2007, Doane was the New Delhi, India-based correspondent for CNN International.

Doane graduated in 2000 with a B.A. in broadcast journalism from the Annenberg School of Communication at USC. He is the fourth correspondent to be named to the new program. Previously, 60 IN 6 announced journalists Laurie Segall, Wesley Lowery and Enrique Acevedo to 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 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.

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