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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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast 'Our Common Nature' from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.
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Nashville singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with her new album. Fatal Optimist an introspective album that is her most stripped down, acoustic record to date.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with with Emilia D'Albero, the first American to win the title of "Best Cheesemonger in the World."
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NPR's Mia Venkat explains to Scott Detrow what the internet couldn't stop talking about this week.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Jake Sullivan, national security adviser to former President Biden, about President Trump's plan for peace in Gaza.
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The Attorney General in New York has been indicted on a bank fraud charge after President Trump urged the Justice Department to prosecute her.
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John Yoo helped developed the legal framework for the post-9/11 wars in the George W. Bush Justice Department. He argues Trump trying to invoke war powers too extraordinary to be used against crime.
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A hundred years ago, Maryland's first state forester challenged residents to find the state's biggest tree. Now the contest is back. Scott Detrow speaks with Joli McCathran of the Big Tree Program.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with actor and musician Fred Armisen about the reason and production behind his new sound effect album, 100 Sound Effects.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with David Butler, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who started a fundraiser for the family of the man who killed church members in Michigan.