Scott Neuman
Scott Neuman is a reporter and editor, working mainly on breaking news for NPR's digital and radio platforms.
He brings to NPR years of experience as a journalist at a variety of news organizations based all over the world. He came to NPR from The Associated Press in Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked as an editor on the news agency's Asia Desk. Prior to that, Neuman worked in Hong Kong with The Wall Street Journal, where among other things he reported extensively from Pakistan in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He also spent time with the AP in New York, and in India as a bureau chief for United Press International.
A native Hoosier, Neuman's roots in public radio (and the Midwest) run deep. He started his career at member station WBNI in Fort Wayne, and worked later in Illinois for WNIU/WNIJ in DeKalb/Rockford and WILL in Champaign-Urbana.
Neuman is a graduate of Purdue University. He lives with his wife, Noi, on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
- The days are hot, but so are the nights. That's a problem, experts say
- It's going to be a hot July Fourth for much of the country
- Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
- A Revolutionary War soldier's DNA links him to living relatives
- Juneteenth: How news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South
- How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician
- The red state, blue state divide is real. But it's driven by more than just politics
- After a year-long rebuild, historic War of 1812 ship heads home to Lake Erie