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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It has been impossible to escape the images and video coming out of Minneapolis. -
New Mexico's Department of Justice says Meta has knowingly allowed the social media platforms Instagram and Facebook to become the "largest online marketplace for predators seeking to exploit children." -
Young People's Records was a popular mail-order subscription club in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. -
The technology includes facial recognition software, cellphone tracking devices and drones. -
In one suburban school district in Minnesota, at least four students have been picked up by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to school officials. -
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.
