From tweets to 2 a.m. emails: What it's like to cover Elon Musk

By Noah Caldwell,

Scott Detrow, Bobby Allyn

Published March 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM HST

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Bobby Allyn describes how he landed a scoop and what he learned from years of reporting on the CEO of Tesla, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Noah Caldwell

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Scott Detrow

Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

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Bobby Allyn

Bobby Allyn is a business reporter at NPR based in San Francisco. He covers technology and how Silicon Valley's largest companies are transforming how we live and reshaping society.

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