Scott Pelley

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Scott Pelley (b. San Antonio, Texas) is an American journalist, currently a correspondent for CBS News' 60 Minutes.

Born in San Antonio, Pelley grew up in Lubbock, and got his first job in journalism at age 15 as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He stayed close to home, graduating from Texas Tech University and beginning his career at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975. He moved to KXAS in Dallas in 1978, then to WFAA in Dallas in 1982, remaining there for seven years.

He joined CBS News in 1989, and was a political reporter, reporting on many presidential campaigns and CBS' former White House correspondent, as well as a foreign correspondent, reporting from war zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and the former Yugoslavia. He's gone through many foreign lands on 60 Minutes, very recently reporting from some sites of the Darfur genocides.

He joined 60 Minutes II when it began in 1999 as a correspondent, and graduated to 60 Minutes in 2004.

Pelley has won five Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Writers Guild of America Award. He lives in Washington D.C., with his wife, son, and daughter.

60 Minutes Correspondents
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