Scott Tong
Co-host, Here & NowBefore joing Here & Now in 2021, Scott Tong spent 16 years at Marketplace as Shanghai bureau chief and senior correspondent. Scott has reported from more than a dozen countries, including Venezuela, Ethiopia, Burma and Japan.
During COVID-19, he reported a series of features on pandemic and long-term innovation. At Marketplace, he investigated baby selling in China’s international adoption system, slave labor in Chinese brick making plants, and in Washington, D.C., the doctoring of Environmental Protection Agency science findings on the risks of fracking.
Scott has reported from the 2011 Japan tsunami, the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa and the economic suppression of Uyghur Muslim minorities in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
Prior to Marketplace, he worked as a producer and reporter for the PBS NewsHour, where he joined a team covering post-invasion Iraq in 2003. Scott served as a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2013-14.
He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Cathy and family, and is known to bike into work at a modest pace.
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The Ferris wheel is just one of the many inventions that debuted when the World's Fair in Chicago opened on May 1, 1893. -
George Washington wrote his Farewell Address by candlelight in 1796. -
On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected. Historian Douglas Brinkley says it's the most important presidential election in U.S. history. -
Groundbreaking science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote her first 10 novels on a powder blue manual typewriter, now an artifact in the Smithsonian Institution's collection. -
Popular TV drama about Communist spies in Taiwan in 1949 weaves history with Beijing's point of view"Silent Honor" is a popular Chinese television show, a drama based on real events. -
Melinda Liu moved to Beijing in 1980. She later opened Newsweek's Beijing bureau and has made Beijing her home for decades. -
He never met his grandfather, who was a political prisoner and died in a labor camp. It was seen as a shameful chapter in his family's history and was never talked about, but 70 years later, Scott tells the story.
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The podcast "StoryFM" is modeled after "This American Life." -
The Food and Drug Administration has plans to provide an ultra-fast review of three psychedelic drugs. -
Wildlife biologists in the nation's capital are monitoring a massive bald eagle nest where eaglets are expected to appear any day now.
