Rachel Scott

Why organisations work with Rachel Scott

• A direct line into the reporting that defines how the world reads Washington, from a correspondent who has covered the Trump campaign, the Biden White House, Capitol Hill and the 2024 election from the front row.
• The same interviewer who pressed Vladimir Putin on jailed opponents at the 2021 Geneva summit and questioned Donald Trump on the NABJ stage in Chicago. Senior leaders get a moderator who can hold any panellist to the substance.
• A correspondent whose Peabody-winning Nightline reporting on the Roe v. Wade aftermath and Murrow-winning coverage of the George Floyd protests show range beyond electoral politics into the social pressures shaping the US operating environment.
• A clear, plain-language read of US political risk for boards and executive committees that have to plan against it, calibrated for an audience that does not live inside Washington.
• A natural fit for events that need an authoritative American journalist on stage: keynote interviews with executives or political guests, election-period briefings, and conference moderation of complex panels.

Biography highlights

• Senior Political Correspondent, ABC News, reporting across Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 20/20, ABC News Live and ABC Audio.
• Lead ABC News campaign correspondent for the 2024 US presidential election; previously Senior Congressional Correspondent and White House correspondent.
• Peabody Award winner (Nightline: The Appointment, 2021) and Peabody finalist (IMPACT x Nightline: On the Brink, 2023) for reporting on the Roe v. Wade decision and its aftermath.
• Inaugural News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Journalist (2022); multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards including coverage of the George Floyd protests and the Accountable podcast.
• Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award; NABJ Emerging Journalist of the Year (2020); Forbes 30 Under 30 (2020); Washingtonian Outstanding Journalist in Broadcast Television (2024); RTDNA First Amendment Award honoree (2025).
• Graduate of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Biography

Washington is harder to read from the outside than it has ever been. The institutions that international businesses have priced as stable, regulators, courts, Congress and the conventions around the presidency, are now contested in public daily. Executive teams making US capital, hiring and supply commitments need a working interpretation of what is actually happening, not the broadcast version.

That is the territory Rachel Scott reports from for ABC News. As Senior Political Correspondent she covers the Trump second term, Capitol Hill and the administration across the network’s full output, from World News Tonight with David Muir to Nightline and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. She served as ABC’s lead campaign correspondent through the 2024 election and was previously the network’s Senior Congressional Correspondent and White House correspondent.

Her reporting has been recognised across the highest honours in American journalism. She is a Peabody winner for Nightline’s reporting on the Roe v. Wade decision, holder of the inaugural Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Journalist, and a multiple Edward R. Murrow Award winner for coverage of the George Floyd protests and the Accountable podcast with Mary Bruce. She has been named NABJ Emerging Journalist of the Year, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and Washingtonian’s Outstanding Journalist in Broadcast Television.

What corporate audiences book her for sits on top of that record. She is a working political interviewer who has pressed Vladimir Putin in Geneva and Donald Trump on the NABJ stage. For boards, executive offsites and conference programmes during a US election cycle, that produces a specific value: a moderator and on-stage interpreter who can take the day’s American political news, however unstable, and convert it into something senior business audiences can actually use.

Key speaking topics

• US political risk and the second Trump administration
• The 2024 election cycle and its consequences for global business
• Washington reporting and the American media environment
• The state of US democratic institutions
• Capitol Hill, the courts and US regulatory direction
• Race, gender and the social pressures shaping US politics
• Keynote interviewing and conference moderation

Ideal for

• International boards and executive committees with US capital, customer or supply chain exposure during an election cycle
• Public affairs, government relations and corporate communications leadership teams
• Annual conferences and CEO summits needing an authoritative on-stage interviewer or moderator
• Investor and partner events that want a sharp Washington read alongside their own programming

Audience outcomes

• A grounded read of where US politics is actually going, separated from cable-news framing
• A working sense of the political risks worth pricing into US strategy over the next twelve to twenty-four months
• Direct, in-room exchange with a correspondent who interviews the principals her audience reads about
• A higher standard of moderation: panels that stay on substance and produce something a senior audience can use afterwards