Washington Correspondent Scott MacFarlane learned Washington from the inside out. He joined our Washington Bureau after spending time as a media advisor and broadcast consultant on Capitol Hill. During his tenure, Scott worked collaboratively with key staffers in all branches of the federal government as well as critical interest groups and community leaders.

Previously, Scott served as an enterprise and political reporter for TV stations in Cleveland and Detroit. He made headlines in Detroit when he discovered and reported that a Michigan man warned the government about a 9/11-style attack 12 days before 9/11. He also hosted a syndicated political talk show with the MTRN radio network and, for two years, Scott was often heard filing breaking news stories for the CBS Radio Network.

In 2001, Scott earned the Wade H. McCree award for excellence in reporting on the justice system. Three years earlier, he won first place in the national William Randolph Hearst Broadcast News Competition, for his work reporting on the homeless. He has received multiple honors from the Associated Press and graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, where he met his wife, Lisa. He began his broadcasting career at the age of 16, by convincing the program director of a small upstate New York radio station to give him a try on-the-air.