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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We talk with a NOAA scientist about the Northern Lights, and why their visibility seems to be increasing.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with John Fogerty after his Tiny Desk performance about Proud Mary and touring with his family.
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America's AI boom requires a lot of power. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Hiller about the workers who are building the electric grid one transformer at a time.
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Former special counsel Jack Smith spoke with lawmakers behind closed doors in December. That testimony is now public.
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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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Sometimes life can get in the way of meeting our ambitions. NPR's Life Kit podcast host Marielle Segarra gives us some practical, daily life tips to set us up for success in 2026.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, Sally, about the life of astronaut Sally Ride.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Nicholas Quah of Vulture about the evolution of celebrity publicity as the "new media circuit" commands more attention.
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Israel is halting operations for humanitarian groups working in Gaza. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Shaina Low with the Norwegian Refugee Council about what that means for aid on the ground.
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Khalil Le'Moor, an Arab resident of the Negev, recounts the threat facing his community of demolitions and expulsion by the Israeli government.