Scott Dodd is an editor on the National desk at The New York Times, where he currently helps lead coverage of the massive disruption to American education during the coronavirus pandemic. He also edits criminal justice stories and helps produce live coverage of breaking news, including hurricanes and wildfires, mass shootings, and protests over police brutality.
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. His beats over the years included night cops, county government, the Pennsylvania statehouse and urban development.
As a general assignment reporter at The Charlotte Observer, he focused on breaking news and enterprise, covering plane crashes, hurricanes, the Olympic Park bomber and a Super Bowl. He won numerous journalism awards, although to his sports-obsessed son, Scott's career highlight might be appearing on ESPN2's "Cold Pizza." The local alt-weekly wrote that "when the Observer wants to make a good story a great one, it sends out Scott Dodd.”
After a fellowship at Columbia University, Scott explored other aspects of the journalism world, including editing for a science magazine, teaching as an adjunct professor and running a digital news outlet. He returned to his newspaper roots in 2018, joining The Times as a senior staff editor and working in several parts of the newsroom, including Sports, Special Sections and the Washington bureau, before taking his role on the National desk.
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. His beats over the years included night cops, county government, the Pennsylvania statehouse and urban development.
As a general assignment reporter at The Charlotte Observer, he focused on breaking news and enterprise, covering plane crashes, hurricanes, the Olympic Park bomber and a Super Bowl. He won numerous journalism awards, although to his sports-obsessed son, Scott's career highlight might be appearing on ESPN2's "Cold Pizza." The local alt-weekly wrote that "when the Observer wants to make a good story a great one, it sends out Scott Dodd.”
After a fellowship at Columbia University, Scott explored other aspects of the journalism world, including editing for a science magazine, teaching as an adjunct professor and running a digital news outlet. He returned to his newspaper roots in 2018, joining The Times as a senior staff editor and working in several parts of the newsroom, including Sports, Special Sections and the Washington bureau, before taking his role on the National desk.