Christopher Scheer

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Christopher Scheer (born September 8, 1968) is an American writer and editor. He is the son of veteran journalist Robert Scheer, and has co-authored two Los Angeles Times bestsellers with him. [1] [2]

Biography

Scheer was born in Berkeley, California. His parents are lawyer Anne Butterfield Weills and journalist Robert Scheer. [3]

A graduate of Berkeley High School (1985) and UC Santa Barbara (1990), he co-founded and edited Prognosis, an English-language newspaper in Prague. [4] [5] Later, he worked with Oliver Stone as a creative consultant on the Academy-award nominated script for Nixon , [6] as well as several unproduced scripts.

After working as an editor at The San Francisco Examiner [7] for several years, as well as writing for The Nation , the Los Angeles Times [8] and other publications, he launched the news/activism website Workingforchange.com for Working Assets, then moved on to become the managing editor of the alternative news site, Alternet. [9] Currently, he teaches debate, mock trial, and journalism [10] at Skyline High School in Oakland, California. He is the advisor for Skyline's national award winning student newspaper The Oracle.

Scheer is the co-author, with his father Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq, [11] published in 2003 in the US, the United Kingdom and Australia. The book appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list and was a part of the national debate in 2004 about the then still popular Iraq War. [1] In 2010 he co-authored The Great American Stickup with his father, which also appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. [2] In 2016, he co-authored California Comeback: How a 'Failed State' Became a Model for the Nation with Narda Zacchino. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mark Green v. Robert & Christopher Scheer: A Debate on Kerry & the Democratic Contenders". Democracy Now! . February 9, 2004.
  2. 1 2 "L.A. Times bestsellers: Surf's up!". Los Angeles Times. 2010-10-01. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
  3. ↑ "My Genealogy - Information about Anne Butterfield Weills". Ancestry.com . Retrieved 2011-11-15.
  4. ↑ Powers, Charles T. (1992-01-13). "For some young Americans, Prague is the place to wait out recession. It's a 'Left Bank of the '90s,' a . . . Land of Opportunity". Los Angeles Times . p. E-1.
  5. ↑ Copeland, Henry (April 1992). "Wild, Wild East". Details .
  6. ↑ Christopher Scheer at IMDb
  7. ↑ Scheer, Christopher (December 19, 1999). "The battle to be a breeder". San Francisco Chronicle .
  8. ↑ Scheer, Christopher (1995-08-14). "Thailand to L.A., a Life of Debasement Thai slaves: The women found in a garment sweatshop were conditioned by their culture to accept fate". Los Angeles Times . p. B-5. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  9. ↑ "Stories by Christopher Scheer". Alternet . Archived from the original on April 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ Gross, Rachel (April 7, 2010). "Rethinking High School Education in Oakland".
  11. ↑ Scheer, Christopher; Scheer, Robert; Chaudhry, Lakshmi (2003). The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq. Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press. ISBN   1-58322-644-3.
  12. ↑ "California Comeback: How a "Failed State" Became a Model for the Nation by Narda Zacchino". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
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