Scott Dodd is an editor on the National desk at The New York Times, leading coverage of criminal justice issues across the country.
A small-town West Virginia native who also lived in New Orleans, Tulsa and Pittsburgh growing up, Scott graduated from Penn State and spent a dozen years reporting for newspapers in Pennsylvania and the Carolinas, including eight at The Charlotte Observer.
His beats over the years included night cops, county government, the Pennsylvania statehouse, sports business and urban development. He covered plane crashes, hurricanes, political corruption and a Super Bowl. His work won numerous journalism awards, including for coverage of the flawed case against a death row inmate who was later exonerated. He also let police pepper spray him in the face.
Before joining The Times in 2018, Scott spent several years writing and editing for science magazines and digital news outlets. He has also taught journalism at Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree on a science writing fellowship in 2007.
A local alt-weekly once wrote that when his paper “wants to make a good story a great one, it sends out Scott Dodd.”
A small-town West Virginia native who also lived in New Orleans, Tulsa and Pittsburgh growing up, Scott graduated from Penn State and spent a dozen years reporting for newspapers in Pennsylvania and the Carolinas, including eight at The Charlotte Observer.
His beats over the years included night cops, county government, the Pennsylvania statehouse, sports business and urban development. He covered plane crashes, hurricanes, political corruption and a Super Bowl. His work won numerous journalism awards, including for coverage of the flawed case against a death row inmate who was later exonerated. He also let police pepper spray him in the face.
Before joining The Times in 2018, Scott spent several years writing and editing for science magazines and digital news outlets. He has also taught journalism at Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree on a science writing fellowship in 2007.
A local alt-weekly once wrote that when his paper “wants to make a good story a great one, it sends out Scott Dodd.”