Scott Cameron Pelley was born on July 28,1957 and is an American journalist and author who has been a correspondent and anchor for CBS News for more than 31 years.
26 Facts About Scott Pelley
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Scott Pelley served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017, a period in which the broadcast added more than a million and a half viewers, achieving its highest ratings in more than a decade.
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Scott Pelley served as CBS News's chief White House correspondent from 1997 to 1999.
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Scott Pelley was assigned to cover the 1992 presidential campaigns of Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, and reported on such major events as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Waco Siege, and the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Scott Pelley served as CBS News's Chief White House Correspondent from 1997 to 1999.
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In covering the investigation of the president, Scott Pelley broke the news that Monica Lewinsky had become a cooperating witness in the investigation conducted by the Office of Independent Counsel.
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In 2008, Scott Pelley conducted an interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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Scott Pelley has reported from Iraq on the front lines in the battle against ISIS; he landed the first major television interview with FBI Director James Comey in 2014; and he conducted an interview of the nurses who treated the first Ebola patient in the United States.
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Scott Pelley conducted the only interview with one of the Navy SEALs who helped to kill Osama bin Laden.
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In September 2015, Scott Pelley met Pope Francis at the Vatican ahead of the pontiff's visit to the United States, and later led CBS News' coverage of the visit.
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Miraculously, Scott Pelley managed to get into Kyiv to interview President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the 60 Minutes segment which aired April 10,2022 while Kyiv was under siege by Russian forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Scott Pelley became the anchor of the CBS Evening News on June 6,2011, succeeding Katie Couric.
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Scott Pelley later told CNN that he had been removed from the anchor chair for complaining to CBS News management about a hostile work environment for the news division's employees.
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Scott Pelley took over from Katie Couric and has steadily made up ground ever since.
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Bob Woodward, writing in The Washington Post in 2007, said, "Scott Pelley nailed the crucial question" in his interview with former CIA Director, George Tenet.
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Scott Pelley is the most awarded correspondent in the history of 60 Minutes.
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Scott Pelley has won 40 national Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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In 2009, Scott Pelley's team won its second George Foster Peabody Award for a report on the medical relief organization Remote Area Medical.
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Also in 2009, Scott Pelley's team won the George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award for Television Enterprise business journalism, and an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for an investigation of American recycling companies that secretly ship hazardous waste to China.
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The Scott Pelley team's reporting on the deaths of civilians during a Marine engagement in Haditha, Iraq, won the 2007 George Foster Peabody Award.
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Scott Pelley is a former co-Chair of the Board of Overseers for the International Rescue Committee, the refugee relief agency headquartered in New York City.
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Scott Pelley left Texas Tech without a degree, but he has maintained an ongoing relationship with the university.
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Scott Pelley was inducted into the Texas Tech University College of Media and Communication Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Scott Pelley currently serves on the professional advisory board of the university's College of Media and Communication.
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In 2016, Scott Pelley was honored with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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In 1983, Scott Pelley married Jane Boone, a former television reporter and advertising executive.