Eugene Scott

Eugene Scott is a host at Axios Live, where he travels the country interviewing political and policy leaders. He was previously a senior political reporter for Axios covering 2024 swing voters and voting rights.

An award-winning journalist, Scott has spent two decades covering politics at the local, national, and international levels. He was recently a national political reporter at The Washington Post focused on identity politics and the 2022 midterm election.

Following the 2020 presidential election, he hosted "The Next Four Years," then Amazon's top original podcast. He also contributed to "FOUR HUNDRED SOULS: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019," which topped the New York Times' bestseller list.

In addition to writing, Scott has regularly provided political analysis on MSNBC, CBS, and NPR.

Scott was a Washington Correspondent for CNN Politics during the 2016 election. And he began his newspaper career at the Cape Argus in Cape Town, South Africa not long after beginning his journalism career with BET News' "Teen Summit."

Scott received his master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and his bachelor's from the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media. He is a D.C. native and continues to live in the Nation's Capital.