Scott Detrow
Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
Detrow joined NPR in 2015. He reported on the 2016 presidential election, then worked for two years as a congressional correspondent before shifting his focus back to the campaign trail, covering the Democratic side of the 2020 presidential campaign.
Before NPR, Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter in both Pennsylvania and California, for member stations WITF and KQED. He also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.
Detrow got his start in public radio at Fordham University's WFUV. He graduated from Fordham, and also has a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government.
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In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the Gulf Coast, Greg Allen reflects on covering the catastrophe in New Orleans and digs into the archives, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.
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The United Nations has formally declared famine in Northern Gaza - and is warning that over 500,000 people are facing catastrophic starvation. The World Food Programme's Executive Director Cindy McCain is calling for a surge of aid into Gaza.
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"Today is different than before," says historian Garrett Graff, who discusses his analysis that the United States has "now tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism."
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A study from Stanford says AI is taking jobs and making it harder for young people to find work. Tech education company founder Sinead Bovell talks about the skills that will be critical for the future of work.
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President Trump says taking a 10% stake in Intel will be good for the company and the country. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Insitiute, who disagrees.
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The lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported by the Trump administration to an El Salvadoran prison and then returned months later, says his client is now facing deportation again. -
The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has talked to NPR about the importance of stories in a time of war. Keret tells Scott Detrow why he recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about the need for a whole new language after the war.
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In the real world, events happen in a linear order - but in the movies, they don't have to. A look at the Rashomon effect, and how films handle complicating the narrative.
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America's mental health care system is facing cuts with the recent passage of the Trump Administration's spending bill. A new podcast from the Seattle Times and KUOW Public Radio explores the difficulties of accessing mental health services in Washington state.
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NPR's Alina Selyukh reports on what we know about the impact of boycotts on Target's bottom line and how the company's sales reflect a complex picture.
