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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On day 12 of U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, we learn more about the importance of the shipping lane: the Strait of Hormuz.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with actor Delroy Lindo about his Oscar nominated role in the supernatural thriller Sinners.
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Scientists say a pair of condors are likely tending to an egg high up in a California redwood — the first time that's happened there in more than a century. A Yurok wildlife official gives an update.
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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.
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Live Nation has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice after a years-long antitrust battle. What could this mean for the broader live entertainment industry?
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Susan Glasser, who writes the "Letters from Trump's Washington" column in The New Yorker, about the war on Iran and how its early days differ from historical norms.
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Iran's supreme leader is dead, but the regime endures. Iran scholar Mehrzad Boroujerdi walks through how the leadership succession could unfold.
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Colman McCarthy dedicated his life to peace — from training to be a monk, to teaching and writing about peace. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with his eldest son, Jim McCarthy, about his father's legacy.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died in the bombing of Iran over the weekend. Vali Nasr of Johns Hopkins University talks about Khamenei's role as one of the most influential Shia clerics in the world.
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Recent breakthroughs have accelerated worries that AI may soon replace humans in the workforce on a massive scale. Two experts talk through how and whether that could happen.