NEW YORK (Reuters) - "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley was named the new anchor of "cbs evening news", succeeding Katie Couric which passage solo news anchor desk was the history of television, CBS said on Tuesday.
Pelley, 53, will take over the Presidency of anchorage on the No. 3 rated network news show June 6 nation but also reports for "60 Minutes," said CBS will continue.
He replaces Couric, whose contract is until June and recently announced that it would leave the job.
Couric, who held the position of prestige for five years, was the first anchor a newscast solo woman every night on a major U.S. television network.
Pelley, former Chief White House correspondent for the network, has worked for CBS for more than two decades, during which he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the genocide in Darfur. He has won awards for the coverage of issues also various toxic technology and slavery of children in India.
He was cited for a startling interview style and a strong presence on the airwaves.
He has interviewed celebrities news such as President George w. Bush, President of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former Director of the CIA George Tenet in an Emmy Award-winning piece in which Tenet broke his silence on September 11.
Since 2004, when joined Pelley "60 Minutes", half of the major awards of the issuance of new have been to his stories, told CBS.
"Scott has everything," said CBS News President Jeff Fager.
"In addition to two decades at CBS News, he distinguished himself at all levels."
Couric, 54, moved to CBS News in 2006 after 15 years as co-host of the top-rated morning NBC show, "Today" and to the speaking time of plans to modernize and update the format of news network heavy nightly.
She recently said that was too ambitious and it may known more successful to be a traditional broadcast format and introduce changes that gradually.
In the course of the show early days, some observers focused on the style of the Couric and appearance, drawing criticism that male anchors would never have submitted to these details of the surface.
Couric has won several prestigious awards during his relatively brief tenure and scored some journalistic shots, including his interview with the candidate presidential Republican vice Sarah Palin in 2008, in which Palin seemed ill-prepared.
Couric has also marked the first interview with pilot "Miracle on the Hudson" Chesley Sullenberger, who landed a crippled jet in the Hudson River in 2009.
But she never managed to lift the "cbs Evening News" the third place.
Couric is in talks to develop her own show for syndication.
(Edited by Ellen Wulfhorst and Jerry Norton)
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