Scott Pelley

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Career

Pelley's CBS career began in 1989 in New York City. Later, he returned to Dallas to cover national affairs from the CBS bureau. Pelley covered the 1990-91 Gulf war, reporting from Baghdad and flying with the XVIII Airborne Corps in its assault on Iraq and Kuwait. He was asked to cover Ross Perot and Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential bids, as well as other major events, such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Waco Siege, and the Oklahoma City bombing.

Pelley served as the Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News from 1997 to 1999. The United States House of Representatives impeached President Clinton during that period. Pelley broke the news that Monica Lewinsky had been named as a cooperating witness in the Office of Independent Counsel's probe into the president's probe.

Pelley covered the economic recession of 2008-2009, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as reporting on climate change from Antarctica and the Arctic. Pelley conducted an interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in 2008. The interview was the first interview with a Fed Chairman in decades, and it brought an end to a long-standing Federal Reserve tradition.

Pelley has covered Iraq's first major television interview with FBI Director James Comey in 2014; and he conducted an interview with the nurses who treated the first Ebola patient in the United States. Pelley also conducted the only interview with one of the Navy SEALs who assisted with the assassination of Osama bin Laden.

Pelley visited Pope Francis in the Vatican in September 2015, ahead of the pontiff's visit to the United States, and later led CBS News' coverage of the visit.

Pelley has written extensively from many war zones, beginning with the Persian Gulf crisis in 1990 and Iraq's 1991 invasion.

He published reports on the Sudanese Darfur area in 2006 and 2007. Pelley ordered the assistance of a rebel group in order to launch an armed reconnaissance mission into Darfur in 2007. The story revealed a village that had been destroyed by government forces during their genocide drive.

Pelley accompanied several units of the US Army and Marine Corps in combat operations in Afghanistan and published independently on the effects of the war on civilians.

Pelley managed to reach President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the 60 Minutes segment, which aired on April 10, 2022, when Kyiv was under siege by Russian forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Pelley, after retiring Katie Couric, became the anchor of CBS Evening News on June 6, 2011. The program attracted an additional daily 821,000 viewers in Pelley's first nine months as the anchor chair's first nine months.

Journalists and media commentators have all praised Pelley's coverage of the Trump administration. Pelley's coverage of the Trump administration is an example of "pointed truth telling" that he has "set himself apart" from his colleagues, according to Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. "It's not commentary," media commentator Andrew Tyndall said. It's all true news."

Pelley later told CNN that he had been barred from the anchor chair after reporting to CBS News administration about a hostile work environment for the news division's employees. As CBS Corporation chairman Les Moonves, 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager, and CBS This Morning host Charlie Rose were all suspended for inappropriate conduct on the job, the remarks underscored the network's fallout as a result of the Me Too movement.

Despite several articles blaming poor ratings after Pelley was fired from his position as a CBS Evening News anchor, several other studies point to increased viewership and audience growth during Pelley's tenure as CBS Evening News anchor. Pelley's assertion that he was fired because of his protests of a "hostile work environment" were given weight by the following.

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