Graham Messick Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny

Graham Messick has produced over 100 stories with 60 Minutes correspondents Steve Kroft, Ed Bradley, Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, Bob Simon and Bill Whitaker. Producers at 60 Minutes are responsible for finding, researching and reporting original stories, casting characters for on camera interviews, scouting and choosing locations, hiring and supervising crews, writing interview questions, directing shoots, writing and collaborating on scripts, supervising in editing rooms, working with legal and standards departments, and overseeing publicity, social media and cross platform projects. Messick's first story for the broadcast was an investigation into the gasoline additive MTBE which was contaminating the nation’s water supplies. The two-part report helped change federal law and won an Emmy for Investigative Reporting. Since then, he has managed dozens of major investigations. In 2006, he was one of the first journalists to unravel the CIA practice known as rendition. The story, featuring videotape of a CIA 737 during an actual mission, had worldwide impact and earned an Emmy for Investigative Reporting. Messick secured and produced the first interview ever with former CIA director George Tenet, an interview that put torture back into the national debate. Another exclusive with CIA operative Valerie Plame, and a challenging interview with President Bush at Camp David, also made headlines, as did investigative reports on cyber war, the Stuxnet computer attack and the BP oil spill, which won the Peabody, Murrow and DuPont awards.In recent years, he produced stories about the musical Hamilton, the first ISIS attack inside the U.S., an interview with President Trump, a deep dive into Russian election interference, TikTok as a data harvester, and an investigation into UAP, also known as UFOs. Segments on cyberwar, deepfakes and the vulnerability of our electric grid were part of a series that won the 2022 duPont-Columbia Award.

Messick began his journalism career in 1986 at CNN and HLN where he rose through the ranks as video journalist, writer, copy editor, show producer and senior writer before joining Ted Turner’s original documentary unit, Special Reports, as a producer. He spent five years producing hour-long documentaries that aired on “CNN Presents.” In 1995, he led a team into Kikwit, Zaire to document the first ebola outbreak in 20 years. The next year he co-produced a story about the first Gulf War, Back to Baghdad, which won the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow award for Best TV Documentary on Foreign Affairs.