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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Moments like the Artemis II mission echo the earliest days of American spaceflight in 1962, when astronaut John Glenn orbited the planet three times in a cramped capsule called the Mercury Friendship 7.
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In 1939 African American aviator Chauncey Spencer and fellow Black pilot Dale White flew in a fragile biplane from Chicago to Washington, D.C. -
On April 1, 2001, a Chinese military jet collided with a US Navy EP-3 intelligence aircraft off the coast of China.
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In a first-of-its-kind verdict, the jury found Meta hid what it knew about child exploitation on its social media platforms, prioritizing profits over safety. -
An NPR investigation found the Justice Department withheld files related to President Trump. -
The United States does not have a rich diamond mining history. But an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute proves that some of the world’s most dazzling gems are homegrown. -
A study published this week in the Journal of American College Health found that more than half of U.S. college students report feeling lonely. -
Dorris Wright played a role in desegregating the Greenville, S.C., public library in 1960 with fellow activist Rev. Jesse Jackson. -
You can learn a lot about people and the times they lived in by looking at what they ate. That includes presidents. -
It has been impossible to escape the images and video coming out of Minneapolis.
