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 Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and nuclear negotiator who spent decades representing Iran, about President Trump's deal to end the war with Iran.
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The Biden administration previously said doctors examined the president "days" following the debate, not in the moments after. The former first lady revealed more details in her new book. -
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker regarding the public hearings of the Illinois Accountability Commission investigating federal immigration enforcement in Chicago.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with NASA's Kelsey Evans Young, the Artemis science flight operations lead, about the rigors of space and the lunar slingshot to get home.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky about a new class action lawsuit against the Justice Department and Google over the release of identifying information about victims.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ricky Smith, general manager of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, about how TSA agents and passengers are faring amid the partial government shutdown.
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TSA staffing shortages have led to hours-long lines for travelers at many airports. Keith Jeffries, the former TSA security director at Los Angeles International Airport shares insights on the crisis.
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The U.S. Mint is set to produce a gold coin featuring an image of President Trump. Caroline Turco, a curator at the Money Museum, says it's a sharp break with tradition that sends a message.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Jake Sullivan, who served as national security advisor under President Biden, about the Trump administration's messaging about the Iran war, and how it might resolve.
