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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 25, 2011 | 1:08 PM

Natural gas companies have stepped up their public relations efforts in recent months. You can’t watch an evening news program, for example, without seeing a drilling-friendly ad from Exxon, ANGA, or a similar energy group.
StateImpact took a look at this ad blitz last month.
If you thought American natural gas ads are aggressive, watch this video promoting Norwegian oil company Statoil.

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