# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-pelley
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:26:43.778Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-pelley"
name: "Scott Pelley"
slug: "scott-pelley"
description: "Scott Cameron Pelley is an American author and broadcast journalist. Pelley is the author of the 2019 book, Truth Worth Telling, and a former 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 viewers. Pelley served as CBS News's chief White House correspondent from 1997 to 1999."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P5230054_(47953408211).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           64.97
  momentum:             10
  historical:           24.423468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 189
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ScottPelley"
    handle:    "ScottPelley"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-pelley-88995061/"
    handle:    "scott-pelley-88995061"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739997/"
    handle:    "nm1739997"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سكوت پيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley"
    title: "Scott Pelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley"
    title: "Scott Pelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%BE%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "اسکات پلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley"
    title: "Scott Pelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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_(%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)"
    title: "スコット・ペリー (ジャーナリスト)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley"
    title: "Scott Pelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pelley"
    title: "Scott Pelley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%AF%E7%A7%91%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E4%BD%A9%E5%88%A9"
    title: "斯科特·佩利"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385588"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1230940"
    title: "Scott Pelley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump