Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley (born July 28, 1957 in San Antonio , Texas ) is an American television journalist who currently works as the chief presenter of the main news program "CBS Evening News" and as a correspondent for the news magazine 60 Minutes of the CBS Corporation .
biography
Pelley was born in San Antonio , Texas , but grew up in Lubbock . There he got his first job at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal at the age of 15 . After graduating from high school, he studied journalism at Texas Tech University . Pelley is married and has two children.
Pelley's first journalistic activity began in 1975 at the television station KSEL-TV in Lubbock. From there he moved to KXAS (NBC) in Dallas - Fort Worth in 1978 , and in 1982 again to WFAA (ABC) . He stayed there for seven years. Pelley's reports on refugees about Guatemalan refugees living in the remote jungle of Mexico caught the attention of the broadcaster CBS News . It would be another four years, however, before Pelly switched to CBS.
Pelley's career at CBS began in New York City in 1989 . He later moved back to Dallas to do national coverage. Pelley reported on the second Gulf War from Baghdad and then moved with the XVIII Airborne Corps as they advanced against Iraq to liberate Kuwait . In 1992 he reported on the campaigns for the presidential candidacies of Ross Perot and Bill Clinton , in 1993 on the first bomb attack on the World Trade Center and the siege of the Davidians near Waco, and the bomb attack in Oklahoma City .
Pelley was CBS ' chief correspondent at the White House from 1997 until he was replaced in 1999. During this time he reported on the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton by the House of Representatives . As part of his reporting, Pelley was the first to announce the news, then Monica Lewinsky was ready to testify as a witness before the committee. A short time later he also reported on Clinton's summons to appear before the grand jury . In 2001 he interviewed Clinton in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks .
In 1999 Pelley left the White House to join the team on 60 Minutes II shortly after it was first broadcast . Pelley was able to conduct the first interview with the newly elected President George W. Bush in 2000 . On the morning of September 11, 2001, Pelley reported directly from New York City about the collapsing skyscrapers of the World Trade Center.
After 60 Minutes II was discontinued in 2004, he switched to the main Sunday edition of the news magazine.
In June 2011 he took over the moderation of the main news program "CBS Evening News".
Awards
Pelley has reported from many war zones, including the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan from the post- Taliban period. In 2003, Pelley and his team of 60 Minutes spoke out against the option of an embedded journalist for the Pentagon and reported independently on the invasion of Iraq. In 2006 and 2007 he wrote reports on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan . He was awarded an Emmy for this report .
Pelley's report on civilian casualties during combat operations by the Marines in the Iraqi city of Haditha won a 2007 George Foster Peabody Award .
In 1999 he received the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for his report on child slaves in India .
He has also received six Emmy Awards , the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Writers Guild of America Award.
Web links
- Scott Pelley's résumé on CBSnews.com
- Scott Pelley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Pelley's profile on cbsnews.com , last accessed on May 2, 2008
- ↑ Biography on 60 Minutes II , last accessed on May 2, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pelley, Scott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American television journalist and newscaster for CBS television |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Antonio , Texas |