Kerry Leary

Senior Associate at Be Clear | recovering journalist @MSNBC, @Nexton9news, @newscentermaine | proud @mujschool alumna

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[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

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"Netflix is taking another step toward becoming a live TV destination."

"The Breakfast Club" will "stream live on Netflix every weekday starting June 1."

"The move marks Netflix’s first daily live program..." https://t.co/lCfkWNWqln

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters.

Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.

90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

[Chris Bianchi @BianchiWeather]

Tired: Denver snowstorm in May
Wired: mid-80s next week

#COwx

[Kerry Leary @KerryLeary]

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[Sara Fischer @sarafischer]

More than one-third of the 2026 @PulitzerPrizes for journalism were awarded to local news outlets yesterday
https://t.co/ZFunqqfs9H

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. https://t.co/P4ZNeIfvPV

[Chris Vanderveen (yep…me) @chrisvanderveen]

This week I had the privilege of showing our documentary on the Refuge at DU. We spent nearly a year documenting one of the very few hospice centers in the US dedicated to the unhoused

Please consider sharing this with people who are in a position to help https://t.co/NfPkLa8Cza

[Kerry Leary @KerryLeary]

@mcguirereports That’s scary!!

[Katie Robertson @katie_robertson]

New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out https://t.co/lObSuAlMBc

[Dana Goldstein @DanaGoldstein]

With student A.I. use/abuse now ubiquitous, professors and teachers are killing off take-home essays and papers. Students are writing inside the classroom, often by hand.

It's part of the big rethink happening on tech and learning. My new report here:

https://t.co/O0o9qplXyy

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: A federal lawsuit by state AGs to stop the acquisition of TEGNA (9NEWS) by Nexstar (FOX31) is expanding and newly bipartisan. Five new AGs have joined the effort today, including Republican AGs from Indiana, Kansas, and Pennsylvania.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: Ohio's Republican AG announces a deal with Nexstar to preserve the independent newsrooms of two formerly TEGNA-owned TV stations in Cleveland and Columbus until 2031.

Dem AGs are suing to stop fully block the Nexstar (Denver's FOX31) acquisition of TEGNA (Denver's 9NEWS).

[Jon Murray @JonMurray]

Well this is sad news: Deep freeze wipes out peach crops on Colorado's Western Slope https://t.co/dbiPUmyhnn via @denverpost

[Rebekah Allen @rebekahallen]

Camp Mystic counselors had no training, no evacuation plan and no life jackets.

via @emfoxhall

https://t.co/qwjA3ZPIUf

[Rainesford Stauffer @Rainesford]

A mom and widow who had benefits cut because of a mistake on a form. A home health aide making $13/hour who said food pantries are so overwhelmed, they couldn't really help. A student who said SNAP helped support eating disorder recovery.

My reporting for @Slate & @econhardship:

[Kerry Leary @KerryLeary]

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[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

Nine-year-old Hayden Stine, a soccer player from Denver, was born missing her right forearm and hand. She found a role model in Denver Summit women's soccer star @Cars_Pickett16, who has the exact same limb difference. But Pickett never wanted to be a role model, until she saw the impact she could have on fans like Hayden – and she has now embraced the role. @SteveHartmanCBS reports.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

My 6-year-old son texted me, "Are you OK?" Yes, we're all OK. I FaceTimed him and said I'll be home soon. But I worry that one day I'll be texting that same question to him. It seems that in America, everyone eventually winds up too close to a terrible spasm of violence.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Breaking: A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits, according to a person familiar with the matter. -@cnn https://t.co/bw3q7ERbJf

[Kerry Leary @KerryLeary]

Will never not think of him as Tim Apple.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Breaking: "Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026."