In 2012, the "Columbia Journalism Review" wrote, "In Pelley, CBS has probably the most well-qualified and proven television journalist ever to ascend to the anchor job." "Variety" wrote, "For CBS the key was switching to Pelley, the former war reporter and White House correspondent. He took over from Katie Couric and has steadily made up ground ever since." Of "60 Minutes", David Zurawik of "The Baltimore Sun" wrote in 2007, "If there is a single face of the broadcast, it is now that of Pelley who has done several of the biggest interviews and stories." Allen Neuharth, founder of "USA Today", noted that "Pelley threw hardballs" in his 2007 interview with President Bush. Bob Woodward, writing in "The Washington Post" in 2007, said, "Scott Pelley nailed the crucial question" in his interview with former CIA Director, George Tenet. William F. Buckley, Jr., in the "National Review", said "Pelley did fine work" in the Tenet piece. Alessandra Stanley of "The New York Times" wrote, "the strongest on-air personality of the moment belongs to one of the program's blander faces, Scott Pelley." On Pelley's second anniversary as anchor of the CBS Evening News, the "Baltimore Sun" praised Pelley and his team for delivering an "honest" newscast.