Joseph Wershba (August 19, 1920 – May 14, 2011) was a professional journalist who joined the CBS News team in 1944, where he served as a writer, editor and correspondent.

He entered Brooklyn College but dropped out after 3 years in 1940 and was drafted into the Army during World War II.

[2] Wershba started in television journalism working the microphone with Walter Cronkite on CBS's Washington, D.C. station news.

He won two Emmy awards at 60 Minutes, for, respectively, What Happened in Tonkin Gulf (1971) and Teddy Kollek's Jerusalem (1978).

Initially the couple were forced to keep their marriage secret due to CBS network regulations.