Scott Pelley

Correspondent, 60 Minutes

(CBS)  Scott Pelley has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 2004. Previously, he served as a correspondent for "60 Minutes II" and as chief White House correspondent for the CBS Evening News.

In 19 years at CBS News, Pelley has worked as a war correspondent in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and the former Yugoslavia. As a political reporter, he has covered numerous presidential campaigns and conducted six presidential interviews. Among his most memorable assignments was reporting from the World Trade Center as tower one collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

Pelley is honored to have received the George Foster Peabody award, eight national Emmy awards, the Edward R. Murrow award and a Polk Award as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Writers Guild of America.