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 for Breaking News Reporting (2008) Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2021) |
Michael D. Shear is an American journalist who is the chief United Kingdom correspondent for The New York Times.[1] He was previously a White House correspondent.
Early life and education
[edit]Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shear attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California.[2] Shear received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in 1990 and later earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.[3]
Career
[edit]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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7]
His book, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, co-written with Julie Hirschfield Davis, was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2019.[8]
He was a leading member of the team at the Times that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for COVID-19 pandemic reporting.[1] In 2025, Shear began a new role in London as a senior U.K. correspondent.[9]
Personal life
[edit]Shear lives in London, with his wife.[1] They have two children.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Michael D. Shear". The New York Times. 2019-01-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-06-18.
- ^ Politico Staff. "BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Michael Shear, WH correspondent for the NYT". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ 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) - ^ "Michael Shear". cmc.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize winners 2007". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
- ^ "Michael D. Shear | The Washington Journalism and Media Conference | George Mason University". wjmc.gmu.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ^ "Michael Shear | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Mike Shear's New Role in London". The New York Times Company.
- ^ "Michael D. Shear - Archived". The New York Times. 2024-12-26.
