60 Minutes correspondents met to discuss futures after Scott Pelley firing: show no longer exists

The remaining three correspondents at “60 Minutes” huddled this week to discuss their futures following the firing of Scott Pelley, according to a report, as former star Steve Kroft warned that the iconic newsmagazine “no longer exists” in the form viewers have known for decades.Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Jon Wertheim met on Wednesday for more than an hour amid growing turmoil at CBS News following Pelley’s ouster and the sweeping shakeup orchestrated by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, the Status newsletter reported on Thursday.The meeting came just hours after The Post reported that CBS insiders believed Whitaker and Stahl could be the next high-profile departures from the program.“I think Bill is next,” one source close to the network told The Post.“Lesley is keeping quiet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she left,” the source added.Another insider told The Post: “Lesley and Bill will be behind him,” referring to Pelley.The stakes are especially high given the stature of the three remaining correspondents.Stahl, 84, has been a fixture on “60 Minutes” since 1991 and is one of the longest-serving journalists in the program’s history.Whitaker, 74, joined the broadcast in 2014 and recently completed his 11th season on the newsmagazine.Wertheim, 56, is the youngest of the trio and joined “60 Minutes” in 2017 after building a reputation as one of the country’s leading sports journalists.The uncertainty surrounding the trio comes as Kroft, who spent decades as a correspondent on “60 Minutes” before retiring in 2019, delivered his own blistering assessment of the state of the program.“I think basically ’60 Minutes,’ as the audience has known it, no longer exists,” Kroft told New York Magazine.“The firings are too substantial.”Kroft said the departures of Pelley, correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon and several senior producers had fundamentally altered the DNA of the sho...