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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In 1999, a 14-year-old Scott Detrow was one of 42,000 fans crowded into the old Yankee Stadium on a steamy Sunday afternoon. What followed was a perfect game.
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NPR’s Scott Detrow talks to Rachel Kleinfeld, an expert on democracies and political violence, about how to avert further violence this election season in light of the attempt on Donald Trump's life.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat, about the questions that Congress is launching about the Secret Service security that allowed a direct line of fire at Trump.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with The Athletic's Meg Linehan about Angel City FC, the National Women’s Soccer League team, becoming the world’s most valuable women’s sports franchise.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Scott Boback, a professor of Biology at Dickinson College, who co-leads Project RattleCam — a webcam aimed at a mega-den holding hundred of pregnant rattlesnakes.
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The latest on what we know about the shooting at yesterday's Trump rally and the investigation into it.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Washington Post sports reporter Ava Wallace about the men's final that took place Sunday at Wimbledon.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with photojournalist Doug Mills about the viral photograph he took of what appears to be a bullet passing by former President Donald Trump's head at yesterday's rally.
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Ahead of the RNC, which begins Monday, how will Trump's assassination attempt affect the Republican nominating convention?
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NPR's Scott Detrow discusses the match with Jeff Rueter of The Athletic.