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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Can impressions and satire shift voters? And how do the comedians think about their role? We put these questions to Harris and Trump impressionists. -
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As racial justice protests grew following the killing of George Floyd, many companies publicly embraced diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring policies. Now many are backing away from those policies.
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An excerpt from "The Fifth Branch," a three-part series by Tradeoffs and The Marshall Project examining how Durham's alternative crisis response program keeps its unarmed responders safe.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with director Tim Burton on his latest film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The movie is a sequel to Burton's beloved 1988 comedy Beetlejuice.
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Farmers are often "land rich, cash poor." Those who need nursing home care might have to sell or break up their farm to pay for it. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
