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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Pamela Melroy, former Deputy Administrator of NASA, talks about the importance of NASA to U.S. interests amid concerns about proposed budget cuts.
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Ichiro Suzuki has just been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Shannon Drayer about one of the most fascinating careers in Major League Baseball history.
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To mark the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future, NPR looks at what it takes to get time travel right on the big screen
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The Warped Tour is back this summer to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
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More than two million people living in Gaza are starving and hopes for a temporary ceasefire have been dashed after the U.S. accused Hamas of negotiating in bad faith.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Tamerra Griffin of The Athletic about Sunday's Euro Cup final between Spain and England.
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As the deadline for the start of 30 percent tariffs on the EU, Cecilia Malmstrom, former European Commissioner for Trade, explains the scope and scale of the EU-US trading partnership and what's at stake if a deal isn't reached.
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In our latest Reporter's Notebook conversation, we explore what it's like to report on the aftermath of deadly flooding and how it impacts the people who survive.
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During a week of urgent news, the administration has pushed a report on Obama and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. NPR Senior Political Editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro and Cybersecurity correspondent Jenna McLaughlin unpack the context and timing.
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NPR journalists Scott Detrow, Sacha Pfeiffer and Linda Holmes discuss Hollywood's treatment of journalism movies and how they reflect public perception of the profession.