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Scott Detrow
American radio journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Scott Detrow (/ˈdɛtroʊ/) is an American radio journalist who is the co-host of All Things Considered, NPR's afternoon newsmagazine. He previously hosted the weekend broadcast of All Things Considered.[1] Before that he served as an NPR White House correspondent and co-hosted The NPR Politics Podcast.[2]
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Early life and education
Detrow grew up in New Jersey and Wisconsin, and graduated from Marquette University High School.[3][4] 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.[5]
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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.[6] He also won a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton for covering Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom.[7]
He joined NPR in 2015, where he covered Congress and the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. He became a White House correspondent in 2020.[5] In 2021, he produced Sacred Ground, a documentary on the 20th anniversary of the Flight 93 tragedy, in partnership with WITF.[8] In 2022, he guest-hosted All Things Considered on location from Ukraine.[9]
He began hosting All Things Considered's weekend episodes on June 24, 2023, replacing Michel Martin.[10][11] From November 2023 to November 2024 he hosted Trump's Trials, a limited-run NPR podcast that covered the various criminal proceedings against former President Donald Trump.[12]
In September 2025, after longtime All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro announced his departure from NPR, Detrow was moved from the weekend to the weekday edition of the show.[13]
Detrow regularly hosts NPR's special coverage of major news events, including the 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump, and the 2025 papal conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.[14]
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Personal life
Detrow is a practicing Catholic[15] and fan of the New York Yankees.[16]
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