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