Scott Dodd is an editor on the National desk at The New York Times, where he has helped lead coverage of some of the biggest stories of our time, including the massive disruption to American education during the coronavirus pandemic. His job ranges from editing stories to writing headlines and social copy to producing live coverage of breaking news, including natural disasters, 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 (even launching the paper's first sports blog). He won awards for breaking news, investigations, business coverage and sports reporting, and 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 media business, 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 an editor in Sports, Special Sections and the Washington bureau before taking his long-term 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 (even launching the paper's first sports blog). He won awards for breaking news, investigations, business coverage and sports reporting, and 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 media business, 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 an editor in Sports, Special Sections and the Washington bureau before taking his long-term role on the National desk.