Scott Pelley

Scott Cameron Pelley is an American journalist who is anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News and a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Prior to his 60 Minutes position, Pelley served as a correspondent on 60 Minutes II (1999-2004), and as CBS News Chief White House correspondent (1997-1999).

Early life and education

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Pelley grew up in Lubbock, where he graduated from Coronado High School and obtained his first job in journalism at the age of fifteen as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Staying close to home, he majored in journalism at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock.

Career

Early career

Pelley began his career as a broadcast journalist at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975. He moved on to KXAS-TV in Fort Worth in 1978, then jumped to WFAA-TV in Dallas in 1982, remaining there for seven years. In 1985, Pelley's reporting on Guatemalan refugees living in remote jungles of Mexico caught the attention of executives at CBS News, but it would be another four years before Pelley would move to the CBS network.