Scott Dodd is a senior staff editor at The New York Times. He joined the paper in 2018 and has worked in departments across the newsroom, including National, Sports and the Washington bureau. A West Virginia native who also lived in New Orleans, Tulsa and Pittsburgh growing up, Scott graduated from Penn State and spent a dozen years working 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. His work won numerous journalism awards, including for coverage of the flawed case against a death row inmate who was later exonerated. Before joining The Times, 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.”
His beats over the years included night cops, county government, the Pennsylvania statehouse, sports business and urban development. His work won numerous journalism awards, including for coverage of the flawed case against a death row inmate who was later exonerated. Before joining The Times, 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.”