page_title: Scott Pelley
section_title: Early career
hierarchical_section_title: Scott Pelley / Career / Early career
caption_attribution_description: English: Scott Pelley interviewing President Barack Obama .
context_page_description: Scott Cameron Pelley is an American journalist and author who has been a correspondent and anchor for CBS News for more than 31 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 added more than a million and a half viewers, achieving its highest ratings in more than a decade. Pelley served as CBS News’s chief White House correspondent from 1997 to 1999.
context_section_description: Pelley began his career as a broadcast journalist at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975 (later KMCC, now KAMC). He moved on to KXAS-TV in Fort Worth in 1978, and to WFAA-TV in Dallas in 1982, remaining there for seven years. In 1985, Pelley's reporting on Guatemalan refugees living in remote jungles of Mexico caught the attention of executives at CBS News (though WFAA was an ABC affiliate), and four years later, Pelley moved to the CBS network.
caption: Pelley with President Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Receiving Room of the White House, 2011.
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