Scott Tong
Co-Host, Here & NowScott Tong joined Here & Now as a co-host in July 2021.
Before that, he 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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At the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in the Revolutionary War, a gunboat called the Philadelphia for the colonies was sunk in battle. -
Ian Eisendrath worked from the story's conception to make the music stand out and tell a story. The movie's hit song "Golden" is up for Best Original Song at this weekend's Golden Globes.
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Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, the CIA spying on American college students and torture by the CIA and U.S. military at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. -
Over the weekend, President Trump announced the U.S. had captured Maduro, and is now holding him at a jail in Brooklyn, New York. In Maduro’s absence, his vice president and political ally, Delcy Rodríguez, was sworn in as interim president. -
Survivor Liz Stein has been waiting for years for the documents to be released. -
Efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine have continued this week, but there are no signs of a major breakthrough. -
It's a holiday that can be stressful. Complex family dynamics often become a powder keg when we gather around the table for turkey and stuffing. -
Snoopy, the Flying Ace, sits on top of his dog house with gritted teeth, wearing his cap, goggles and scarf. His house stands in for his plane: a Sopwith Camel.
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Doral is known as "Little Venezuela" with the highest concentration of Venezuelans in the country and a mayor who supports President Trump.
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The Trump administration's pressure campaign on Venezuela is being watched closely by exiles living in south Florida.
