Tanya Simon, the daughter of the late 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon, has been executive-producing the newsmagazine show on an interim basis since Bill Owens’ shocking resignation. The current crop of 60 Minutes correspondents have been lobbying Paramount Global to make it official.

On Friday, Oliver Darcy’s Status newsletter reported that Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Bill Whitaker, Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, Jon Wertheim and Cecilia Vega — the whole gang of 60 Minutes correspondents — collectively wrote and signed a letter in May urging Paramount co-ceo George Cheeks to officially name Simon as the show’s executive producer.

Owens resigned as 60 Minutes EP in April in protest of what he believed to be a dwindling ability to independently control the show’s editorial positions. In other words, Paramount corporate was getting in the way of their reporting. Owens’ boss Wendy McMahon resigned as head of CBS News in May, citing similar reasons as Owens.

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