Ross Douthat, Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni, Trevor Phillips to Join CBS’ ’60 Minutes

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60MINUTES launches its iPhone app on Thursday, Sept. 27th.  The 60 MINUTES app for the iPad has been one of the most popular paid news apps since its launch and is currently the #1 paid news app.  Now, America’s number-one news program can be also watched on the iPhone.  The new app will be available in the Apple App Store as a universal download for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, so users can watch 60 MINUTES on their mobile devices for the price of $4.99. The 60 MINUTES app delivers high-quality video and text, including weekly previews, segments, Web extras and clips.  It also features weekly original content produced for 60MinutesOvertime.com, where users can experience a behind-the-scenes look at the production of 60 MINUTES stories and view archival segments.  With the launch, 100 more classic 60 MINUTES stories have been added to the app’s archive, bringing the total to over 300 segments from throughout the broadcast’s 44 years. Photo: CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. FRAME GRAB BEST QUALITY

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Ross Douthat, the conservative New York Times columnist will join CBS News‘ “60 Minutes,” along with author Sebastian Junger, and filmmaker Gianna Toboni, the Paramount Skydance news division annonced Tuesday, a move that will remake the look and feel of the venerable newsmagazine at a time when it has been under intense scrutiny.

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