Illinois State University is pleased to announce it will feature award-winning, veteran broadcast journalist Scott Pelley as part of the Presidential Speaker Series.
Join us on:
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
7 p.m.
Braden Auditorium, Bone Student Center
Pelley is among the most recognized reporters in American journalism. His career at CBS News spanned 37 years. He served as a correspondent for 60 Minutes for 27 years, and from 2011 to 2017, he was anchor and managing editor of The CBS Evening News. He has covered the major stories of our time and interviewed the news makers who have changed our world.
As a war correspondent, Pelley has covered Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Sudan. On September 11, 2001, he was reporting from the World Trade Center when the North Tower collapsed. As a political reporter, he has interviewed five serving U.S. presidents, leaders of the House and Senate, and three members of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Pelley has won a record 54 Emmy Awards, four Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Batons, and three George Foster Peabody Awards.
In 2016, in accepting the Walter Cronkite Award, Pelley said, “I receive too much credit for the work of others. I have never accomplished anything in journalism without photographers, producers, and editors. Hundreds of people at CBS News have given me my career, but one person has given me a life, my lovely wife, Jane.” The Pelleys have been married 43 years and have a son and daughter.
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