New '60 Minutes' producer hopes to crack down on 'rumors' leaked to press following dramatic shakeup

Newly minted "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton is hoping to tamp down the leaks to the press about newsroom drama, much of which he insists are false.

"Since I started here there has been roughly a rumor a day. About me, about you, about what's coming next — 95% percent of them are fabrications and blatantly incorrect," Bilton wrote Monday in a staff memo obtained by Fox News Digital. "I no longer have the time or the patience for them, and I'd rather we spend that energy on the...