| Summary: | Broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker was born on August 26, 1951, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Media, Pennsylvania. Whitaker earned his B.A. degree in American history from the Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, in 1973 and his M.A. degree in African American studies from Boston University in 1974. Whitaker's journalism career began at WBTV-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was hired as a reporter at CBS News, based in Atlanta in 1984, where he won an Emmy for his coverage of the demise of Jim and Tammy Bakker's television ministry. He became CBS' Tokyo correspondent in 1989, covering the Tiananmen Square protests that year. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1992 to serve as a regular reporter for CBS Evening News. Whitaker became a correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes in 2014. He received honorary degrees from the Hobart and William Smith College and Knox College. .
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