An excerpt from the NYT story:

After the chairman of CBS, Leslie Moonves, announced last month that he was canceling the Wednesday spinoff of the Sunday program because of low ratings, the news division has been struggling to relocate about 75 producers, editors, assistants and others who worked on the weekday broadcast; at least 40 of them are expected to lose their jobs, with the remainder dispersed to other programs, including the Sunday edition of "60 Minutes," a senior network executive said yesterday.

Meanwhile, producers of the Sunday broadcast must make room for an additional correspondent - Dan Rather - who left the "CBS Evening News" in March for the Wednesday program, and who is now entitled to work on the Sunday program, at least until his contract expires late next year. It has not yet been resolved how extensive a role will be played by Mr. Rather, who announced last fall that he was quitting the anchor desk in the midst of the fallout from a discredited report on President Bush's military service.

Then there is the matter of the "I'm's." Among the more trivial, though nonetheless tantalizing, questions circulating within the West 57th Street offices of the Sunday newsmagazine is which correspondents will be authorized to utter that contraction - as in, "I'm Mike Wallace; I'm Morley Safer" - at the outset of each broadcast next season, and if so, how frequently will they be permitted to do so.

This year, that privilege, which is considered a currency of status on "60 Minutes," was reserved for the program's three full-time correspondents - Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl and Steve Kroft, - and for Mr. Safer and Mr. Wallace, who work part time. (All five carry the formal title of co-editor.) Two other contributors to the Sunday program - Bob Simon and Scott Pelley - who will be returning next fall, were permitted "I'm's" this past season, but only on those nights when they had segments running.

For Jeff Fager, the executive producer of "60 Minutes," managing that extended lineup is something like managing an All-Star baseball team. And as on a baseball team, where players fight for at-bats, the deepening of the "60 Minutes" bench has set off a pre-emptive scramble for air time among some of the best-known journalists on television - in a finite universe in which there are only so many news reports that can be assigned.