Scott Detrow

Scott Detrow
Detrow questions President Joe Biden at a 2021 White House briefing
Education	Fordham University (BA) University of Pennsylvania (MPA)
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	2006-present
Employer	NPR
Known for	NPR Political Correspondent
Title	Weekend Host of All Things Considered
Website	www.npr.org/people/444796749/scott-detrow

Scott Detrow is an American radio journalist who is the weekend host of All Things Considered, NPR's afternoon newsmagazine. He previously served as an NPR White House correspondent and co-hosted The NPR Politics Podcast.^[1]

Early life and education

Detrow grew up in New Jersey and Wisconsin, and graduated from Marquette University High School.^[2][3] He attended Fordham University, graduating in 2007. As a college student, he worked for Fordham's public radio station WFUV. He earned a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government.^[4]

Career

Detrow began his career as a statehouse reporter for NPR member stations WITF and KQED. He also reported on energy policy in Pennsylvania for NPR's StateImpact project. He won a national Murrow Award for reporting on the deployment of a Pennsylvania National Guard brigade to Iraq.^[5] He also won a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton for covering Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom.^[6]

He joined NPR in 2015, where he covered Congress and the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. He became a White House correspondent in 2020.^[4] In 2021, he produced Sacred Ground, a documentary on the 20th anniversary of the Flight 93 tragedy, in partnership with WITF.^[7] In 2022, he guest-hosted All Things Considered on location from Ukraine.^[8]

He began hosting All Things Considered's weekend episodes on June 24, 2023, replacing Michel Martin.^[9][10] In November 2023, he began hosting "Trump's Trials," a new NPR podcast focused on the criminal cases former President Donald Trump is facing.^[11]

References

1. "Scott Detrow". NPR. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
2. "Want to be an NPR host like Scott Detrow? Pick up a book and start reading voraciously". WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR. 2023-10-11. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
3. "About". State House Sound Bites. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
4. Kultys, Kelly (2023-06-23). "Fordham Graduate Scott Detrow Named Weekend Host of NPR's All Things Considered". Fordham Newsroom. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
5. Odcikin, Evren (2013-02-04). "KQED Announces Steven Cuevas and Scott Detrow as Los Angeles and Sacramento Bureau Chiefs". KQED. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
6. Johnson, Jeffrey (2012-12-20). "WITF wins Silver Baton award for Marcellus Shale reporting". pennlive. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
7. Stairiker, Kevin (2021-09-11). "NPR reporter Scott Detrow talks 'Sacred Ground' project on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with Tim Lamber". LancasterOnline. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
8. "Scott Detrow named weekend host of 'All Things Considered' and 'Consider This'". Editor and Publisher. 2023-05-31. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
9. "WITF alum Scott Detrow named weekend host of 'All Things Considered' and 'Consider This'". WITF. 2023-05-31. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
10. Falk, Tyler (2023-05-31). "NPR taps Scott Detrow for weekend All Things Considered". Current. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
11. Mullin, Benjamin (2023-12-27). "True-Crime Podcasts About Trump Are Everywhere". The New York Times.