Bill Whitaker is a '60 Minutes' man in New York, but he still loves LA
A correspondent's role on the venerable CBS News magazine "60 Minutes" is still considered the brass ring for TV journalists. Bill Whitaker toiled for years at CBS News before he finally got his shot in 2014, after a stint covering Asia and two decades in the network's Los Angeles bureau where he was a fixture on "CBS Evening News."
Logging around 20 "60 Minutes" segments a year, ranging from explaining the supply chain crisis to riding along Wyoming's Green River Drift, the dapper 70-year-old Philadelphia native is now a familiar, authoritative prime-time presence.
A former resident of Hollywood Hills now based in New York, Whitaker shared some thoughts on his career in a conversation last month.
Q: You were in the Los Angeles bureau of CBS News for 22 years. How did that prepare you for "60 Minutes"?
A: It's got politics, immigration, and the economy, the military is out there, you've got environmental stories, the wildfires. You just name it,
