Scott Detrow
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Detrow questions President Joe Biden at a 2021 White House briefing
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| Education | Fordham University (BA) University of Pennsylvania (MPA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Employer | NPR |
| Title | Weekend host of All Things Considered |
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]
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]
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 that covers the various criminal proceedings against former President Donald Trump.[11]
