Michael D. Shear

Michael D. Shear
Michael D. Shear
	Shear at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Education	Claremont McKenna College (BA); Harvard University (MPP)
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	1989-present
Employer	The New York Times
Awards	Pulitzer 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]

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 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]