Hi, I'm Scott Dodd, an editor on the National desk at The New York Times. 
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As director of news, I oversee the desk's coverage of breaking stories and run our LIVE operation on topics ranging from mass shootings to high-profile trials to weather disasters. As one top editor put it: "If news breaks out anywhere in our land, chances are Scott Dodd is on it." 

I had a varied career before The Times, including stints in magazines and digital media. But I spent my formative years as a local news reporter at the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania, then at The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina, covering everything from night cops to NASCAR. 

I have won awards for investigative, sports, business, breaking news and public service reporting. I also taught at Columbia Journalism School and mentor young journalists through Report for America and The Daily Collegian, Penn State's student newspaper, where I was lucky enough to get my start.