Scott Newman is a writer, podcaster, and entrepreneur. His literary debut, The Night Before the Morning After, won four first-place Firebird Book Awards and a Pencraft Book Award. His second book, Somewhere Sometime, is slated to publish in autumn 2026. His essays have appeared in Quillette, where he was an Associate Editor, as well as The Spectator,The Ski Journal, Areo, and Penthouse. He captains the Ski Club of International Journalists’ USA chapter.

His first podcast, 27 Rouge, featured writers, academics, musicians, journalists, and founders from around the world. His second podcast, Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, features interviews with students and professors at Oxford.

Focused on special projects, he has worked in media, defense tech, and finance across New York, Paris, Sydney, Buenos Aires, and Aspen.

He graduated from Princeton in 2021, writing his thesis on the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson, Joan Didion, and George Plimpton. He is currently pursuing a Master of Philosophy in the history of science, medicine, and technology at Oxford.