Michael D. Shear

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Michael D. Shear
Michael D Shear 2019 Texas Book Festival.jpg
Shear at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Education Claremont McKenna College (BA)
Harvard University (MPP)
OccupationJournalist
Years active1989-present
Employer The New York Times
AwardsPulitzer Prize (2007)

Michael D. Shear is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times . [1] He previously worked at The Washington Post , where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. He regularly appears on CNN and MSNBC. [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shear attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. [4] Shear received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in 1990 and a Master's in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. [5]

Career

Shear's reporting career began in 1989, when he was a junior in college and interned at the Los Angeles Times ' Washington bureau covering hearings on Capitol Hill and other high-profile stories, including the trial of Oliver North and the anniversary of cameras in Congress.[ citation needed ] After graduation, he worked briefly as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News before returning to full-time education to pursue a degree in public policy. [6]

He returned to reporting by first writing for The Tampa Tribune before taking up a more permanent role as a metro reporter at The Washington Post in 1992.[ citation needed ] He was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. [7]

In 2010, Shear moved to the Washington bureau of The New York Times as a political correspondent. He covered Barack Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and in 2013 returned to his role as a White House correspondent for the Times. He covered the 2016 presidential election. [8] After the election, Shear reported on domestic policy and President Donald Trump.[ citation needed ] He also made regular appearances as a political commentator on radio and television. [9]

His book, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, co-written with Julie Hirschfield Davis, was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2019. [10]

Personal life

Shear lives with his wife and two teenage children in Virginia. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Michael D. Shear". The New York Times. 2019-01-12. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  2. ↑ NYT: Trump says Mueller will treat him fairly - CNN Video , retrieved 2019-02-04
  3. ↑ "Campaigns sprint to the finish". MSNBC.com. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  4. ↑ Politico Staff. "BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Michael Shear, WH correspondent for the NYT". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  5. ↑ Affairs, Office of Public; Claremont, Communications 400 N. Claremont Blvd. "Veteran reporter Michael Shear '90 takes readers inside President Trump's immigration battle". cmc.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Michael Shear". cmc.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  7. ↑ "Pulitzer Prize winners 2007". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  8. ↑ "Michael D. Shear | The Washington Journalism and Media Conference | George Mason University". wjmc.gmu.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  9. ↑ "Michael Shear | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  10. ↑ Davis, Julie Hirschfield; Shear, Michael D. (2019-10-08). Border Wars : Inside trump's assault on immigration. [S.l.]: Simon & Schuster. ISBN   978-1982117399. OCLC   1085153035.
  11. ↑ "Michael D. Shear - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
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