Scott Cameron Pelley is an American journalist and author who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News for almost 30 years. Pelley is the author of the 2019 book, Truth Worth Telling, and a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Pelley served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017, a period in which the broadcast achieved its highest ratings in more than a decade. Pelley served as CBS News’s chief White House correspondent from 1997 to 1999.
This week on 60 Minutes: Lesley Stahl asks YouTube's CEO if the company's doing enough to curb hate speech, Anderson Cooper reports on Seattle's homeless crisis and Scott Pelley visits the mysterious.. CBS News - Published
Bill Whitaker finds out what lies 2 miles below Earth's surface, Scott Pelley goes hunting with eagles in Mongolia and Anderson Cooper reports on Easter Island's moai statues CBS News - Published
In the northern highlands of Ethiopia stand 11 churches that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church says were built by angels. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
In the Mongolian steppe, hunters partner with golden eagles to catch game. When Lauren McGough found out about it she said, "I have to see it. I have to do it.“ Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
Red Flag gun laws allow temporary confiscation of firearms if a gun owner displays dangerous or threatening behavior. The laws have been adopted in 17 states and the District of Columbia, but in.. CBS News - Published
"60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley says Americans can only sustain a democracy when divisions do not recklessly tug at the threads holding us together. CBS News - Published
Former Olympic hopefuls accuse their coaches of secretly giving them performance-enhancing drugs. Ex-USA Cycling teammates Greg Strock and Erich Kaiter tell Scott Pelley that not only were their dreams.. CBS News - Published
Scott Pelley profiles Jay Greenberg, a musical prodigy who by age 12 had written five full-length symphonies, putting him in the same league as Mozart. The Juilliard student says he signs his work.. CBS News - Published
After the death of Pope John Paul II, Scott Pelley meets the American cardinal who the pope entrusted to run Vatican City and the seminarians - known as "John Paul's soldiers" -- who will be his living.. CBS News - Published
In separate interviews, the two parties' presidential nominees are questioned on the big issues, including the U.S. economy, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, energy policy and health care. Scott Pelley.. CBS News - Published
The former Hollywood action star-turned California governor may be facing his most formidable foe in a $40 billion state budget gap caused by the economic decline. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
Scientists are collecting a billion and a half seeds from all the world's crops to keep in safe storage deep inside a mountain near the North Pole. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
Where do our cast-off computer monitors, cell phones, and other electronic refuse end up? Scott Pelley finds that some of it is shipped illegally from the U.S. to China, where toxic "e-waste" is.. CBS News - Published
The most dangerous body of water in the U.S. is a deep canal on the Mexican border with California where over 550 people, mostly illegal immigrants, have drowned. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
People who are completely paralyzed due to illness or trauma are getting help communicating with a new technology that connects their brains to a computer. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this natural spectacle comprised of over a million animals. CBS News - Published
Scott Pelley follows Hillary Rodham Clinton as she performs her duties as secretary of state and questions her on the latest developments in foreign policy and the recent terror scare in New York's.. CBS News - Published
In Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly destroyed the cradle of civilization. CBS News - Published
Leon Panetta has both balanced the budget and eliminated Osama bin Laden. Now as secretary of defense, he's fighting multiple wars, pursuing al Qaeda, and trying to keep Iran from building an atom.. CBS News - Published
Matthew Schrier's kidnapping, torture and escape from Syrian rebels provides a rare first-hand look into the brutal ways of the extremist rebel factions battling the Syrian dictatorship. Scott Pelley.. CBS News - Published
Mitt Romney's plan to restore America to fiscal health includes less government, entitlement reform, tax cuts - and cooperation with Congress. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
In her first broadcast interview, Sotomayor talks about her life and career leading up to her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, including the role affirmative action played. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
When shots rang out in the Ohio HS, coach Frank Hall ran toward them instead of away, saving an untold number of young lives. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
It's hard to imagine America without the Capitol Dome, but when you hear how it was created it becomes hard to imagine it exists at all. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
Businessman Bill Browder says his life has been threatened as a result of his claims of corruption in the Russian government. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
Volcanoes are found all over the world and many could spew lava and mass destruction -- we just don't know when. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
60 Minutes gets a rare look inside new therapy sessions that are changing the lives of vets who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
It's hard to imagine America without the Capitol Dome, but when you hear how it was created it becomes hard to imagine it exists at all. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
FBI Director James Comey speaks with Scott Pelley about our lives online and the need for government electronic surveillance, but only with a court order. CBS News - Published
In his major first television interview, FBI Director James Comey speaks with Scott Pelley about the threat of Americans joining ISIS and the dangers posed by cybercrime and cyber espionage. CBS News - Published
After sharing his eyewitness account with Scott Pelley of how Osama bin Laden was killed, a Navy SEAL faces criminal investigation. CBS News - Published
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs tells Scott Pelley about his personal mission to reorganize the troubled agency for his fellow vets. CBS News - Published
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sit down for their first joint interview since the new Republican majority Congress convened. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
When insurance companies deny the mentally ill the treatment their doctors prescribe, seriously ill people are often discharged, and can be a danger to themselves or others. Scott Pelley reports on.. CBS News - Published
Pope Francis has the last word on his own security, which always puts the people he serves ahead of his own safety. Watch Scott Pelley’s report Sunday, September 20 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. CBS News - Published
Trump on trade: The Republican presidential candidate calls NAFTA a disaster he will either break or renegotiate if he's elected president. Watch Scott Pelley's interview with Trump on Sunday,.. CBS News - Published
Witnesses to the assault on Paris recount their experiences, painting a picture of the day darkness fell on the City of Light. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
Scott Pelley uncovers critical lapses in the U.S. security clearance process that millions of people must pass to work with America's secrets. CBS News - Published
Scott Pelley interviews Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who lays out key policy details and reveals a major part of his tax proposal. CBS News - Published
Nurse practitioners are providing badly needed health care to the uninsured working poor in Appalachia -- medical mercy for those left out of Obamacare and ineligible for Medicaid. Scott Pelley.. CBS News - Published
Scott Pelley reports on the Smithsonian and the Slave Wrecks Project's journey to recover the first artifacts known to be preserved from a slave. CBS News - Published
Terrorism. Civil war. A refugee crisis. Geopolitics. That's the situation in the Middle East and right on Jordan's doorstep. Scott Pelley interviews the country's leader, King Abdullah II. CBS News - Published
It's no secret that House Speaker Paul Ryan didn't want Donald Trump to be president. But Ryan tells Scott Pelley that's in the past and he plans to work with Trump to fix the country's problems. CBS News - Published
The lead NTSB investigator of El Faro, the American cargo ship that sank in 2015, describes listening to recovered audio from the doomed ship's last 26 hours. Scott Pelley reports. CBS News - Published
In March 2013, Scott Pelley investigated New England Compounding Center, a pharmacy behind a tainted steroid that caused a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis. CBS News - Published
