Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Jon Wertheim will remain at '60 Minutes'

After a tumultuous week, CBS News took a large measurement successful stopping the bleeding astatine “60 Minutes.”

In a memo sent Friday morning, the 3 remaining “60 Minutes” correspondents Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Jon Wertheim said they volition proceed with the program. The trio powerfully considered leaving successful solidarity with their ousted colleagues Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi , Cecilia Vega and enforcement shaper Tanya Simon and her second-in-command Draggan Mihailovich.

Pelley — aggravated implicit the dismissal of his different co-workers — was fired Tuesday, a time aft confronting the program’s caller enforcement shaper Nick Bilton astatine his archetypal unit meeting. Pelley questioned the credentials of Bilton, a erstwhile New York Times writer with nary acquisition successful tv news. He besides accused CBS News Bari Weiss — who oversaw the changes — of “murdering” the program.

The memo said the determination to enactment should not beryllium seen “as an endorsement of the existing powerfulness structure.”

“Here’s wherefore we’re staying: We don’t privation ’60 Minutes’ to die,” they wrote.

The dismissal of Pelley, considered the astir respected writer wrong CBS News, sent shockwaves done the enactment and led to speculation of an exodus by the remaining 3 correspondents.

In their memo, Whitaker, Stahl and Wertheim said they felt the aforesaid bewilderment and vexation that Pelley did implicit the firing of their colleagues.

“We privation to explicit however atrocious we are that these principled, just and honorable journalists were treated truthful shabbily, with specified indecency,” they wrote. “Tanya deserves to beryllium celebrated, not genuinely formed off. Draggan too. It was heartbreaking.”

With the programme successful full-blown crisis, Bilton spent the remainder of the week attempting to calm the waters and clasp the disgruntled correspondents. He issued a memo Thursday praising Whitaker, Stahl and Wertheim — calling them “the halfway of the show’s success” — and promising to uphold the editorial independency of the program.

“We volition ever prosecute stories without fearfulness oregon favor,” Bilton said.