Bill Whitaker is an American television journalist who reports for the CBS Evening News. Whitaker was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Hobart College in 1973 with a B.A. degree in American history. He went on to graduate study at Boston University, earning a master's degree in African-American studies in 1974. He also attended a graduate Journalism program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1997. Whitaker's broadcast journalism career began in 1979 at KQED in San Francisco, California. In 1982 Whitaker became a correspondent for WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and covered politics from 1985 to 1989. He joined CBS News as a reporter in November 1984. He became the CBS News' Tokyo correspondent from 1989 to 1992. In November 1992, Whitaker moved to Los Angeles and became a CBS News correspondent there. In March 2014, Whitaker became a correspondent for the CBS news program 60 Minutes, for which he begin reporting in the fall season. He formerly resided in Los Angeles with his wife and children but moved his family to New York City with the position. In June 2015, Whitaker received an honorary doctorate from Knox College.
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Credits
Cast Credits
Jeopardy! (1984)
Guest starring as Host
(10 episodes)
- Episode 37x165: Amanda Ganske Vs. Justin Williams Vs. Kristen Crowe, show # 8335. (May 14, 2021)
- Episode 37x164: Amanda Ganske Vs. Matt Mcandrews Vs. Susan Schulman, show # 8334. (May 13, 2021)
- Episode 37x163: Jeff Mitchum Vs. Amanda Ganske Vs. Dave Friedlander, show # 8333. (May 12, 2021)
- Episode 37x162: Juliet Mayer Vs. Jeff Mitchum Vs. Lara Phillips, show # 8332. (May 11, 2021)
- Episode 37x161: Juliet Mayer Vs. Alyse Stokes Vs. John Marsh, show # 8331. (May 10, 2021)
- Episode 37x160: Jamie Logan Vs. Juliet Mayer Vs. Sara Biegler, show # 8330. (May 7, 2021)
- Episode 37x159: Jamie Logan Vs. Kalee Hernandez Vs. Steve Bright, show # 8329. (May 6, 2021)
- Episode 37x158: Hanna Howard Vs. Elliott Goodman Vs. Jamie Logan, show # 8328. (May 5, 2021)
- Episode 37x157: Emily Sands Vs. Hanna Howard Vs. Brittany Eltman, show # 8327. (May 4, 2021)
- Episode 37x156: Emily Sands Vs. Eliza Eatonstern Vs. Cesar Del Peral, show # 8326. (May 3, 2021)
CBS News Sunday Morning (1979)
Guest starring as Correspondent
- Episode 2024-02-04: Ziggy Marley, Usher, Leslie Uggams, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Erika Alexander (Feb 4, 2024)
60 Minutes (1968)
Starring as Co-Host
(131 episodes)
- Episode 56x29: Leader Jeffries / Work to Own / St. Mary's (May 5, 2024)
- Episode 56x28: Children of War / Nvidia / Crisis at Pearl Harbor (Apr 28, 2024)
- Episode 56x26: Scattered Spider / Knife / Tasmanian Tiger (Apr 14, 2024)
- Episode 56x24: Targeting Americans | Indian Relay (Mar 31, 2024)
- Episode 56x23: The Right to Be Wrong | AMLO | Law of the Sea (Mar 24, 2024)
- Episode 56x21: Operation Lone Star | 97 Books | Artemis (Mar 3, 2024)
- Episode 56x17: Agency In Crisis | Interpol | Modern Ark (Jan 28, 2024)
- Episode 56x14: The Hostage Story | The Looting of Cambodia | Gnawa (Dec 17, 2023)
- Episode 56x13: The Resistance | Red and Green | Novak Djokovic (Dec 10, 2023)
- Episode 56x12: Chaos On Campus | Quantum Computing | Greta Gerwig (Dec 3, 2023)
- Episode 56x09: Iran's Assassins | The Heritage War | Horse Racing Reform? (Nov 12, 2023)
- Episode 56x07: Vice President Harris | A Quiet Invasion | The Air We Breathe | The State of the Blues (Oct 29, 2023)
- Episode 56x06: The Five Eyes | A Prisoner of Iran | Pink | The Isle of Man (Oct 22, 2023)
- Episode 56x04: The Godfather of AI | General Milley | Rich Paul | 3D Printing (Oct 8, 2023)
- Episode 55x31: Price Gouging | Targeting Seniors | Jeff Koons (May 21, 2023)
- Episode 55x29: This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey (May 7, 2023)
- Episode 55x28: The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under (Apr 30, 2023)
- Episode 55x27: Healing and Hope | Who is Ray Epps | Nicolas Cage (Apr 23, 2023)
- Episode 55x25: The Origin of Everything | Sportswashing | The Resurrection of Notre Dame (Apr 9, 2023)
- Episode 55x24: MTG | The Secretary and the Border | Fire and Ice (Apr 2, 2023)
- Episode 55x19: Candles Against the Darkness | Prime Minister Marin | The Historymakers (Feb 19, 2023)
- Episode 55x18: The IMF Report | Investigating Donald Trump | Red Hot Chili Peppers (Feb 5, 2023)
- Episode 55x15: Radio Free Europe | The Vanishing Wild | Obesity (Jan 1, 2023)
- Episode 55x14: Convoy of Life | Litigation Funding | Lourdes (Dec 18, 2022)
- Episode 55x12: The French President | Return to Gorongosa | The South Dakota Kid (Dec 4, 2022)
- Episode 55x08: Angry in America | Buses from the Border | Ready or Not (Nov 6, 2022)
- Episode 55x07: Belief in the Ballot | Pathogen X | David Sedaris (Oct 30, 2022)
- Episode 55x06: Dominion | American Prairie | Ina Garten (Oct 23, 2022)
- Episode 55x04: Taiwan | After Ian | Church and State (Oct 9, 2022)
- Episode 55x03: Olena Zelenska | What Happened at Grizzly Flats | Captain Kolisi (Oct 2, 2022)
- Episode 55x02: Secretary of State Blinken | Inside the Committee | Rescuing Reefs (Sep 25, 2022)
- Episode 54x31: In Short Supply | Hope Chicago | Jonas Kaufmann (May 22, 2022)
- Episode 54x26: Shields Up | Running Volkswagen | eVTOLs (Apr 17, 2022)
- Episode 54x24: City of Lions | Londongrad | Laurie Anderson (Apr 3, 2022)
- Episode 54x22: Headlines from Ukraine | Voting Rights & Wrongs | Secretary Pete | The Improbable Tale of Ted Lasso (Mar 13, 2022)
- Episode 54x20: Headlines From Ukraine | The Grid | Wrongful Detainees | Headlines, Deadlines, Bottom Lines (Feb 27, 2022)
- Episode 54x16: The Big Quit | One Small Step | The Kicker (Jan 9, 2022)
- Episode 54x14: "The Beast" | America's Dirty Secret | Trevor Noah (Dec 19, 2021)
- Episode 54x11: Hazing | Saving The Mountain Gorillas| Rita Moreno (Nov 28, 2021)
- Episode 54x10: Reimagining Police | Supersonic | Caligula's Gardens (Nov 21, 2021)
- Episode 54x09: Freight Expectations | Andrew Sullivan | The Get Back Sessions (Nov 14, 2021)
- Episode 54x06: Prince V. Spy | Running Dry | Michael Keaton (Oct 24, 2021)
- Episode 54x05: Robert Gates | The Green River Drift | Whither Ye Olde English Pub (Oct 17, 2021)
- Episode 54x04: Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs (Oct 10, 2021)
- Episode 54x02: Take the Fight to the Night | Rep. Liz Cheney | King of the Deep (Sep 26, 2021)
- Episode 53x34: Attacks on the Judiciary | 90+ | Notes of Grace (May 30, 2021)
- Episode 53x33: Transgender Healthcare | Geldingadalir | Exhume the Truth (May 23, 2021)
- Episode 53x32: Facial Recognition | UAP | Rafa (May 16, 2021)
- Episode 53x28: The Oath Keepers | Race & Health | Viola Davis (Apr 18, 2021)
- Episode 53x27: Chairman Powell | The Last Pandemic | Prince and the Revelation (Apr 11, 2021)
- Episode 53x23: Variants | The Prosecutor | Best Band in the Land (Mar 14, 2021)
- Episode 53x22: The Unequal Recession | The Long Shot | Back to the Moon (Mar 7, 2021)
- Episode 53x21: Progress & Patience | Incoming | Colson Whitehead (Feb 28, 2021)
- Episode 53x20: Attack on the Judiciary | Handcuffed to the Truth | QAnon (Feb 21, 2021)
- Episode 53x19: SolarWinds | Bill Gates 3.0 | Simone Biles (Feb 14, 2021)
- Episode 53x17: Against All Enemies | The Threat | The Comeback (Jan 17, 2021)
- Episode 53x14: An End in Sight | Justice Defenders | Built by Angels (Dec 20, 2020)
- Episode 53x12: Peddling PPE | Secondary Sports | Viola Davis (Dec 6, 2020)
- Episode 53x11: Securing the Election | The Last Slave Ship | James Corden (Nov 29, 2020)
- Episode 53x09: The 44th President | TikTok (Nov 15, 2020)
- Episode 53x08: Counting the Vote | Operation Warp Speed | Ken Burns (Nov 8, 2020)
- Episode 53x07: Ask Ohio | Arizona Counts | The First Outbreak (Nov 1, 2020)
- Episode 53x04: Treating COVID-19 Today | The Lincoln Project | Grizzlies (Oct 11, 2020)
- Episode 53x01: The Battle for the Ballot | H.R. McMaster | Coach O and the Sideways Season (Sep 20, 2020)
- Episode 52x35: Voting in the Pandemic | Wild West of Testing | Probiotics (Jun 28, 2020)
- Episode 52x34: Chief Arradondo | The Opioid Playbook (Jun 21, 2020)
- Episode 52x32: Nation in Crisis | A Long Siege | Failure to Protect (Jun 7, 2020)
- Episode 52x31: The Promise of Plasma | Spilling Across the Border | Perseverance (May 31, 2020)
- Episode 52x29: Pandemic Politics | Amazon | Ghost Guns (May 10, 2020)
- Episode 52x27: On the Line | Outbreak Science | The Unseen Enemy (Apr 26, 2020)
- Episode 52x25: Short Supply | Staying Well | The Resurrection of St. Nicholas (Apr 12, 2020)
- Episode 52x23: State of N.Y. | Brené Brown | The African Basketball Trail (Mar 29, 2020)
- Episode 52x22: Stopping the Coronavirus | Neel Kashkari | A Populist Movement (Mar 22, 2020)
- Episode 52x20: Coronavirus | Fiona Hill | Elfstedentocht (Mar 8, 2020)
- Episode 52x19: Michael Bloomberg | The Trial of a Navy SEAL | Array of Hope (Mar 1, 2020)
- Episode 52x17: A Continent on Fire | The Server | West Side Story (Feb 16, 2020)
- Episode 52x16: 60 Minutes Presents: Great Adventures (Feb 9, 2020)
- Episode 52x15: 60 Minutes Presents: Whitaker's Wildlife Tour (Jan 19, 2020)
- Episode 52x13: Jeffrey Epstein | Antibiotics on the Farm | Shakira (Jan 5, 2020)
- Episode 52x11: Genetic Information Age | City on a Hill | The Sandman (Dec 8, 2019)
- Episode 52x09: The Russian Hack | Tania's Story | Mind Reading (Nov 24, 2019)
- Episode 52x08: Red Flag Laws | Into the Deep | The Youngest Refugees (Nov 17, 2019)
- Episode 52x07: Jamie Dimon | Dimon in Detroit | Targeting the Truth (Nov 10, 2019)
- Episode 52x06: Maria Butina | The Battle of Brexit | The Wright Way (Nov 3, 2019)
- Episode 52x01: The Impeachment Inquiry | Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman | Great White Sharks (Sep 29, 2019)
- Episode 51x29: The Price of Generics | The Most Unlikely Meeting | Mark Bradford (May 12, 2019)
- Episode 51x28: Ransomware | Frontotemporal Dementia | Polar Punk (May 5, 2019)
- Episode 51x24: The Principles of Ray Dalio | A Radical Solution | Attu (Apr 7, 2019)
- Episode 51x23: Survivors' Network | Pleistocene Park | The Rock (Mar 31, 2019)
- Episode 51x18: The Label | Double Crossed | Made in China (Feb 24, 2019)
- Episode 51x13: To Catch a Spy | Malta | The Wolves of Yellowstone (Dec 23, 2018)
- Episode 51x12: Taking Aim at Opioids | Plastic Plague (Dec 16, 2018)
- Episode 51x10: George H.W. Bush | Paradise Lost (Dec 2, 2018)
- Episode 51x07: Your Data | Ultra Deep | The Pact (Nov 11, 2018)
- Episode 51x05: Inside the Secret Archive | America's War Against ISIS | JAAP (Oct 28, 2018)
- Episode 51x04: Genetic Genealogy | Off the Rails | Fly Like an Eagle (Oct 21, 2018)
- Episode 51x03: President Trump | Photo Ark (Oct 14, 2018)
- Episode 51x01: Paul McCartney | The Compromise | Inside the Epidemic (Sep 30, 2018)
- Episode 50x33: 100,000 Women | Saving a Generation | Shock Therapy (May 13, 2018)
- Episode 50x31: CRISPR | The Gates Scholars | Seaweed (Apr 29, 2018)
- Episode 50x28: Hacking Democracy | The Legacy of Lynching | The Harvard Lampoon (Apr 8, 2018)
- Episode 50x27: The Herculaneum Scrolls | Physical Cause of PTSD | Daniel Barenboim (Apr 1, 2018)
- Episode 50x22: War Crime: Sarin | JR | Jennifer Lawrence (Feb 25, 2018)
- Episode 50x13: Too Big to Prosecute | An American Terrorist | Airlift (Dec 17, 2017)
- Episode 50x11: 50 Years of 60 Minutes (Dec 3, 2017)
- Episode 50x08: Friendly Fire | Aly Raisman (Nov 12, 2017)
- Episode 50x04: The Whistleblower | Redemption (Oct 15, 2017)
- Episode 49x36: Operation Car Wash | Snitches | Space Archeaology (May 21, 2017)
- Episode 49x34: James Comey | The Bin Laden Documents | Curiosity (May 14, 2017)
- Episode 49x33: Theo and Joe | Deported | The Nuremberg Prosecutor (May 7, 2017)
- Episode 49x32: Tawdry Tales | Starr Students | Norman Seeff's Archive (Apr 30, 2017)
- Episode 49x28: Shots Fired | Peter Marino (Apr 2, 2017)
- Episode 49x26: Fighting Famine | You're Fired | New Kid on the Street (Mar 19, 2017)
- Episode 49x24: Le Pen | Saving the Lions | Voices of the Lost (Mar 5, 2017)
- Episode 49x23: The Alzheimer's Laboratory | Taking on the Eiger (Feb 26, 2017)
- Episode 49x21: The Remington 700 | The North Korean Threat | USA Gymnastics (Feb 19, 2017)
- Episode 49x18: Avalanche | Enhancing the Bike (Jan 29, 2017)
- Episode 49x16: The Coming Swarm | The Hostage Policy | The Hunt for Planet Nine, (Jan 8, 2017)
- Episode 49x15: Crisis in Chicago | The Rum War | Passports for Sale (Jan 1, 2017)
- Episode 49x13: The White Helmets | The Pope's Choir | Denzel (Dec 18, 2016)
- Episode 49x12: The New Columbia | Lost | Benjamin Netanyahu (Dec 11, 2016)
- Episode 49x11: The Speaker of the House | The Golden Triangle | Drive-by Lawsuits (Dec 4, 2016)
- Episode 49x05: Ask Ohio | Thrown for a Loss | The Influncers (Oct 23, 2016)
- Episode 49x04: Finding Refuge | The Brothers Rosenberg (Oct 16, 2016)
- Episode 49x02: The Artic Frontier | Don't Mess with Mary Quin | Nate Parker (Oct 2, 2016)
- Episode 49x01: The King | The New Cold War | The Picasso Portfolio (Sep 25, 2016)
- Episode 48x33: Breakthrough Status | Collateral Damage (May 15, 2016)
- Episode 48x32: Russia's Dark Secret | The Killing Machine | Earthquake Alley (May 8, 2016)
- Episode 48x31: Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village (May 1, 2016)
- Episode 48x30: The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents (Apr 24, 2016)
- Episode 48x29: Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone (Apr 17, 2016)