Scott Detrow

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Scott Detrow
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Detrow questions President Joe Biden at a 2021 White House briefing
Education Fordham University (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (MPA)
OccupationJournalist
Years active2006-present
Employer NPR
Known forNPR Political Correspondent
TitleWeekend 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]

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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]

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