Veteran 60 Minutes Correspondents Commit to Stay and Fight Amid Newsroom Shake-Up
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Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim announced they will remain at CBS’s 60 Minutes after leadership shake-ups and firings at the show, saying they want to defend independence and the program’s integrity, while expressing heartbreak over the eliminations of longtime staff and leadership. They emphasized they’ll stay if the commitment to journalistic independence is put into action, otherwise they’ll leave.
- Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim say they’ll ‘stay and fight’ at 60 Minutes The Guardian
- ’60 Minutes’ Stars Will Stay After Pelley’s Firing Because They Don’t Want Show to ‘Die’ The New York Times
- Remaining ‘60 Minutes’ correspondents say they’re staying CNN
- Longtime CBS correspondent Scott Pelley lived many workers’ fantasy: Telling your boss off AP News
- Steve Kroft Says the 60 Minutes We’ve Known ‘No Longer Exists’ New York Magazine
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