American television news magazine broadcast on CBS since 1968 — the longest-running primetime TV news program — which pioneered the investigative television journalism format through its combination of hidden camera reporting, confrontational interviews, and narrative storytelling.
Established the template for television investigative journalism — the sit-down interview with surprise revelations, the hidden camera sting, the narrative story arc — and proved that serious journalism could be both commercially successful and journalistically credible on broadcast television.
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