Scott Pelley, one the most experienced reporters in broadcast journalism, was named Anchor and Managing Editor of the "CBS Evening News" in May 2011. In its first season, "The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley" was the only network evening news broadcast to grow its audience. Under Pelley’s leadership, the CBS Evening News has also been awarded an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Journalism Award, an Emmy Award and a George Polk Award. . Pelley is also a Correspondent for the CBS News magazine, “60 Minutes.”

Pelley’s CBS career started in New York in 1989. Since then he has covered breaking national news stories, politics and war. From 1997 to 1999 he served as the network's chief White House correspondent. In 2001, Pelley reported from the scene of the collapsing World Trade Center towers. In the years following, he reported extensively from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pelley came to "60 Minutes" in 2004. Since that time, half of all the major awards won by that broadcast have been won by Pelley’s team of producers, reporters, photographers and editors.

All told, Pelley and his team's distinguished body of work have received an Alfred I. duPont- Columbia Silver Baton, four George Foster Peabody awards, 20 national Emmy awards, five Edward R. Murrow awards, a George Polk and a Loeb award, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Writers Guild of America. Twenty-one of those awards have been earned for his work over the past five years on "60 Minutes."