Scott Pelley

Scott Pelley represents a kind of journalism I deeply admire and worry we are losing. From a San Antonio kid to 60 Minutes correspondent and anchor of the CBS Evening News, he built a career on credibility rather than spectacle. The Polk, Loeb, and Cronkite awards confirm what his calm, deliberate delivery already suggests: he chooses truth over theatrics. The title of his book, Truth Worth Telling, reads almost like a personal creed. In an era of noise and outrage, I value reporters who let the facts carry the weight, and Pelley has done exactly that for decades.

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Name (English)

Scott Pelley

Name (Japanese)

スコット・ペリー

Reading

すこっと・ぺりー

Born

July 28, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Occupation

journalist / news presenter / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

High school

Coronado High School

University

Texas Tech University

Awards & achievements

• 2008 George Polk Award
• 2009 Gerald Loeb Award
• 2016 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism

• Xhttps://x.com/ScottPelley
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Pelley
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%20(%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385588

Tags

• Texas
• journalist
• news presenter
• writer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.