Scott Detrow
Scott Detrow is a host of All Things Considered, as well as NPR's daily news podcast Consider This.
Detrow regularly hosts NPR's live special coverage of major news events, and was broadcasting from St. Peter's Square when the conclave selected Pope Leo XIV as the first American pontiff. He also hosted NPR's coverage of election night 2024, and the 2024 assassination attempt against President Trump, among other stories.
He joined NPR in 2015 and spent the next eight years covering national politics. He covered the White House, Congress, two presidential campaigns and co-hosted The NPR Politics Podcast, which he helped launch and grow into a daily news show. He also reported from Ukraine in the early months of the war there. In 2021, he reported an hour-long documentary looking back at the legacy of Flight 93, the plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001.
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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The ex-Olympian accused of damaging the reflecting pool tells NPR the experience has been "Orwellian" and "Kafkaesque." And it's not over yet: His lawyers are fighting to close the case permanently. -
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Bernard Condon of the AP about how President Trump and his family raked in more than a billion dollars last year through crypto ventures.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and nuclear negotiator who spent decades representing Iran, about President Trump's deal to end the war with Iran.
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The Biden administration previously said doctors examined the president "days" following the debate, not in the moments after. The former first lady revealed more details in her new book. -
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with NASA's Kelsey Evans Young, the Artemis science flight operations lead, about the rigors of space and the lunar slingshot to get home.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky about a new class action lawsuit against the Justice Department and Google over the release of identifying information about victims.
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At just 17, Tallulah Proulx will be competing in her first Olympics. Proulx is not only the youngest Filipino to compete at the Winter Olympics, but the first female to represent the Philippines.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania about his memoir, Where We Keep the Light, immigration raids and the upcoming elections in 2026 and 2028.
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Former special counsel Jack Smith spoke with lawmakers behind closed doors in December. That testimony is now public.
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Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and other congressional Democrats released a video last week letting service members know they can refuse illegal orders. Kelly is now being investigated for misconduct.
