Brian Romanowski

Views are mine & mine alone.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Michael M. Grynbaum @grynbaum]

Cecilia Vega, who was fired today by CBS, tells me: “I very much fear what comes next for and the future of” 60 Minutes.

Her full statement below:

[Brian Romanowski @DCShawTea]

@VJKapur 👏🏼👏🏼

[PoPville @PoPville]

Heads Up: The United House of Prayer Parade is this Saturday! - And tell everyone you know about the street closures because they will ask: https://t.co/Ly6HtMve2j

[Mayor Muriel Bowser @MayorBowser]

Just announced: 2 @dcunited FIFA World Cup watch parties in Washington, DC: United in Play.

The details:
⚽️June 12-14 at Franklin Park
⚽️June 19-21 at Tingey Plaza

Free and open to the public. We'll see you there.

[Brian Romanowski @DCShawTea]

@wmataGM Please help add better signage! This is still too real.

[Pierre @crocsinwinter]

How it feels using the wrong exit at L’Enfant Plaza

[DC Police Department @DCPoliceDept]

Chief Carroll provides an update on two separate shooting investigations underway in the Third District.

[PoPville @PoPville]

OK back to what will overjoy some and infuriate others - Chipotle coming to U Street/Shaw near 9:30 Club! - Huzzah or I'm Sorry: https://t.co/Vpi9m0dmqt

[Councilmember Brooke Pinto @CMBrookePinto]

My team was at the scene of the crash between an SUV and a WMATA bus that caused the bus to crash into Ambar restaurant at 7th & Q in Shaw this morning. Very luckily only minor injuries reported and not during busy brunch. Thank you to @dcfireems and @dcpolicedept. The community stands with Ambar as they work to repair what was damaged.

[Post Local @postlocal]

Exclusive: D.C. Water planned to reinforce an aging section of a sewer line in 2018 but repeatedly delayed construction.

The pipe failed in January 2026, releasing one of the largest spills of untreated wastewater in U.S. history. https://t.co/wcBCcSUXnc

[Brian Romanowski @DCShawTea]

Huge applause to @StevenforDC & @Hgarrett4dc for showing the power @stonewalldems51 still demand 50 years on. At a time when many would be complacent, they rolled up their sleeves & remind the powers that be to pay attention to our continued needs & to our legendary elders 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Jon Aguiar @JonAguiar]

We spent the last 9 months raiding Home Depot parking lots instead of arresting anyone from the massive network of Iranian terrorist cells?

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

Heads-up: Monday has the potential to bring a serious outbreak of severe thunderstorms in the Mid-Atlantic. We’ll have more updates over the weekend.

[Mayor Muriel Bowser @MayorBowser]

A great summer opportunity for young people in Washington, DC:

Junior Lifeguard Academy Program:

✅ DC residents ages 13-17
✅ Free certification for those who intend to work for DPR
✅ Pathway to paid lifeguard opportunities

Learn more: https://t.co/kgIOJbR4nL

[DC Fire and EMS Department @dcfireems]

#ThrowbackThursday

In 1961, firefighters investigate a small electrical fire in the trackbed of a DC Transit trolley line at 7th Street and Florida Ave NW. Photo courtesy Randy Walsh. #DCsBravest

[Washingtonian 🌸 @washingtonian]

A Haitian tasting menu restaurant is coming to Shaw. Chef Sebastien Salomon will open the 20-seat Itiyah this summer.
https://t.co/kcHdjywoaj

[Brian Romanowski @DCShawTea]

@chenderson But wait, there’s more: https://t.co/whrnMbmMtH

[PoPville @PoPville]

Fundraiser for Carlos’s Family Killed by a Hit and Run Driver While He Was Riding His Scooter Sunday Night - Unfortunately another heartbreaking read: https://t.co/PIeJJQJCL7

[Brian Romanowski @DCShawTea]

@SafeSidewalksDC @311DCgov @DDOTDC @DunbarHSDC @ANC5E This request goes back years. Will try to find an old SR too.