Draggan Mihailovich, Producer CBS 60 Minutes, will talk about what goes into making a great “60 Minutes” story, from conception to casting to writing to editing. He’ll give some examples and also talk about his favorite story of all time, which he produced during his time at CBS Sports: a piece on Louie Zamperini which was the inspiration for the best selling book “Unbroken.”
Mihailovich, 57, started his network television career at ABC Sports in 1984 where he worked on the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics and the Calgary Winter Olympics. In 1988, CBS Sports hired Mihailovich to produce features for the next three Winter Olympics: in Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; and Nagano, Japan. For the past 21 years, Mihailovich has been a producer for the CBS News program “60 Minutes”. Since joining the broadcast in May 1998, Mihailovich has won seven Emmy Awards. In all, he has won 11 Emmy Awards, four of them for his work as a feature producer at CBS Sports. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mihailovich now lives in Stamford.
Host: Sunil Saksena