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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Scott Detrow speaks with KERA's James Hartley about his reporting on how people gathered at church services Sunday to reflect after the deadly flash floods which killed more than 120 people in central Texas.
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A promise of a major announcement comes amid President Trump's growing frustration with Russia over U.S.-backed efforts to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson, about the legacy of the Scopes Trial and the teaching of evolution in school, and its relevance today.
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There are certain bars of music that put people in a specific headspace - and many of them come from our favorite films, where composer John Williams matched his iconic themes with magic movie moments.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Katherine Keneally, who researches political violence, about whether we're seeing more of it in American politics.
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The potential impact of the new tariffs on key U.S. trading partners could be vast and bruising.
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President Trump will be at the final game in the FIFA Club World Cup, taking place Sunday. Paul Tenorio of The Athletic talks about this moment in the culture and business of soccer in America.
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Jon Wolfsthal on the rationale behind the U.K.-France nuclear sharing agreement, how it reflects a changed geopolitical reality and what the implications are for American security in the new nuclear age.
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Covering the spectacle and complexity of the Sean Combs trial required both modern and old-school reporting techniques.
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The Atlantic Writer Charlie Warzel on his new reporting about Elon Musk, Grok and why a chatbot called for a new Holocaust.