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 7:41 PM EST

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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.

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Noah Caldwell

Scott Detrow

Scott Detrow is the weekend host of All Things Considered, and a co-host of the Consider This podcast. In this role Detrow contributes to the weekday All Things Considered broadcasts, and regularly hosts NPR's live special coverage of major news stories.

Bobby Allyn

Bobby Allyn is a technology correspondent based in Los Angeles.