Wikipedia readers turned to Scott Pelley at 605x the usual rate

What this article is

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.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 96 edits to this article on 2026-06-03, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Firing
• Recognition
• 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II
• Career
• Peabody Awards
• 2013 Peabody Awards

What changed that day

The article grew by 6,140 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,004 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-03 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.