Webinar - Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes with Ira Rosen

Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show. It's a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself. 

His latest book, The Ticking Clock offers a highly entertaining look into what has made 60 Minutes successful, as told by Mike Wallace's producer. Ira Rosen's memoir offers an incisive look at how modern TV magazines operate. For the first time, he reveals the inside account of the rise and fall of ABC's Primetime Live, where Rosen served as senior producer. The author delivers a dishy mix of reminiscences from what has made 60 Minutes the most popular show in the country to inside stories from Ghislaine Maxwell to the Trump White House.

Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace's work legendary, and his own investigative techniques that made him one of the most award-winning producers in television news history.

This book is a master class in how successful TV news stories are made which would interest journalism students and news junkies alike. And it is peppered with hilarious anecdotes about TV news industry, and reveals never before told stories from inside organize crime, politics and sports.

Ira Rosen

For nearly twenty-five years, Ira Rosen has produced some of the most memorable, important, and groundbreaking stories for 60 Minutes. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Rosen was a senior producer of Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer. He was there from the series' inception in 1989 until 2004, when he returned to 60 Minutes. 

Rosen pioneered the use of hidden cameras for Prime Time Live investigations. The stories included exposing racial discrimination, abuses in VA hospitals, mistreatment of farm workers, unsafe and unsanitary food handling practices inside meat packing plants and supermarkets, and political corruption in Washington.

Rosen has won 24 National Emmys, four duPont Awards, six Investigative Reporters and Editors awards (IRE), two RFK Awards, and two Peabodys for his work.  In 2019, in addition to the previously mentioned awards, he garnered two Sigma Delta Chi awards, a Murrow and Hillman awards, for his Opioid reports. He is also the co-author of a book on the accident at Three Mile Island titled, The Warning. 

Attendees can purchase Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes on Amazon.com.  

6:00pm EDT webinar, gratis. Advance registration required. Registrants will receive the link to join the webinar in a confirmation email.