NPR’s “All Issues Thought of” is getting a brand new weekday voice.
Scott Detrow will turn into a full-time weekday host of NPR’s afternoon radio present beginning Sept. 29, whereas sustaining his position at “Think about This,” the outlet’s each day information podcast, the general public radio agency stated.
“I can’t wait to carry listeners the information 5 days every week now. And at this second the place we’re all specializing in strengthening all the public media community and dealing collectively extra carefully than ever earlier than,” Detrow stated in a press release.
This information comes every week after journalist Ari Shapiro introduced his departure from the information journal present. Shapiro had been internet hosting the present for almost a decade.
For the previous two years, Detrow might be heard on weekend episodes of “All Issues Thought of.” He steered protection of breaking information occasions together with the tried assassination of President Trump in Pennsylvania, which earned him the Edward R. Murrow Award for Breaking Information.
He initially joined NPR in 2015. From getting his begin as a Fordham pupil at WFUV within the Bronx to working as a statehouse reporter at WITF in Pennsylvania and at KQED, he’s spent his complete profession in public radio.
Since changing into part of the nationwide nonprofit, he has helped launch segments such because the “Reporter’s Pocket book,” the place listeners get a behind-the-scenes take a look at how journalism is produced, and most lately, he anchored dwell protection surrounding Pope Leo’s election. He has additionally co-hosted the “NPR Politics Podcast” for seven years, the place he targeted on the White Home, Congress and two presidential campaigns.
“All Issues Thought of” is one in all NPR’s longest-running reveals, first airing in 1971. The flagship program presents a mixture of information, commentary, interviews and evaluation each day.
In a full-circle second, Detrow’s first job out of faculty was engaged on the native model of “All Issues Thought of” in central Pennsylvania.
“I’m proud that I began out as an ATC host at a NPR Member station, and now will probably be doing that job nationally,” he stated.
