BULLETIN: "Jeff Fager is leaving the company effective immediately," CBS News president David Rhodes says. "Bill Owens will manage the 60 Minutes team as Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and I begin the search for a new executive producer of the program."
Rhodes says Fager's departure from CBS "is not directly related to the allegations surfaced in press reports, which continue to be investigated independently. However, he violated company policy and it is our commitment to uphold those policies at every level."
Jeff Fager's statement to CNN: "The company’s decision had nothing to do with the false allegations printed in The New Yorker." 👇🏼 
Here's my full story about @JeffFager's exit -- a huge change for @60Minutes -- he's just the second exec producer in the program's history money.cnn.com/2018/09/12/med…
