Scott Pelley

After graduating from Texas Tech and holding brief tenures at such Lone Star stations as KXAS-TV Dallas and KSEL-TV Lubbock, broadcast journalist Scott Pelley ascended to greater prestige as chief White House correspondent for the CBS Evening News and as on-air correspondent for 60 Minutes II, then joined the regular lineup of the latter's parent series in 2004. The resumé of this San Antonio native placed a particularly strong emphasis on war correspondence in such battle-strewn regions as Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan, and on politics, with coverage of a myriad of presidential elections. Pelley accomplished an astonishing journalistic coup by reporting from one of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, as that tower fell. - Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide