Anna Scott

KCRW Staff

Contact: anna.scott@kcrw.org

Anna Scott is a reporter for KCRW, focused on housing and homelessness. She created KCRW's podcast Samaritans, and reported for its podcast There Goes the Neighborhood: Los Angeles. Before that, she produced Madeleine Brand's news program "Press Play," and Warren Olney's "To the Point" and "Which Way, LA?" Anna reports regularly on homelessness for NPR's national programs. She's previously written for Bloomberg Businessweek, the Los Angeles Times and various local publications.

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