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 speaks with Pastor Chad Harvey of Cross Assembly Church on where his support stands for Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who once spoke at his church, and former President Donald Trump.
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North Carolina has more rural voters than any other 2024 presidential swing state, and canvassing groups are working to turn out voters in one purple county as early voting continues in the state.
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With less than two weeks until election day, the races loom large over the state fair in North Carolina, where voters are expressing both apathy and anxiety over their top issues and the candidates.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about the death penalty cases that have come under scrutiny this year.
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Two years ago, scientists surveyed the floor of Lake Michigan looking for shipwrecks. They found something mysterious and unexpected — a cluster of sinkholes on the lakebed.
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NPR's Scott Detrow continues his interview with journalist Bob Woodward about his book War, which details how the Biden administration has navigated Russia’s war with Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Alexandra Reeve Givens about a new documentary about her dad, Christopher Reeve. Super/Man is the story of his life before and after his life-changing accident.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with legendary journalist Bob Woodward, whose new book War -- like so many of his books about the American presidency over the last half century - is generating headlines.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Carrie Lowry Schuttepelz about her new book The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native In America.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ava Wallace of The Washington Post about Rafael Nadal's career. The tennis star announced he will retire in November.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with longtime Florida meteorologist John Morales, who got emotional while reporting on Milton prior to the hurricane making landfall.
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