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| Born | David Martin Shuster (1967-07-22)July 22, 1967 (age 57) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of MichiganGeorgetown University |
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| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Disabled American Veterans' Bugle Award (2006) Emmy Award (1996) |
David Martin Shuster (born July 22, 1967) is an American television journalist. Shuster previously served as principal anchor and managing editor fori24 News, previously working as an anchor forMSNBC and worked forFox News,CNN,Current TV,The Young Turks, andAl Jazeera America.
Shuster's career at MSNBC included anchoring prime time breaking news coverage of the death of Michael Jackson, the passage in Congress of historic health care reform, and the deadly earthquake in Haiti. He was suspended from MSNBC in April 2010 after secretly auditioning for a newCNN show. After MSNBC, Shuster was hired to serve as "primary substitute anchor" forCurrent TV's re-launch ofCountdown with Keith Olbermann. In January 2012, Shuster began hosting his own syndicated political talk radio show. In July 2013, he was hired to host a show onAl Jazeera America.
Shuster was born to aJewish family[1] inBloomington, Indiana, the son of Arnold Shuster of Bloomington and Susan Klein ofNashville, Indiana, and stepson of Robert Agranoff (married to his mother) and Rose Mahern-Shuster (married to his father). He has one living brother, Jonathan.
David Shuster graduated in 1985 fromBloomington High School South, and with honors from theUniversity of Michigan. He earned a Master's in Public Policy atGeorgetown University.[2] He married journalistJulianna Goldman on May 27, 2007, at theSixth & I Historic Synagogue inWashington, D.C.[3][4] On January 10, 2011,The Washington Post reported that Goldman and Shuster had separated. They had no children.[5]
On July 23, 2012, Shuster announced his engagement to Kera Rennert, a television writer and producer.[6] Shuster and Rennert married on February 16, 2013, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art in New York City[7] and had their first child in 2013.
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Shuster started his journalism career atCNN's Washington, D.C. bureau. He was an assignment editor andfield producer from 1990 to 1994, covering both thePersian Gulf War and the1992 presidential election campaign. Shuster left CNN in 1994 to become a political reporter for theABCaffiliateKATV inLittle Rock, Arkansas, covering theWhitewater scandal. During this period, Shuster led KATV's coverage of the indictment, trial, conviction, and resignation of Arkansas GovernorJim Guy Tucker. At KATV, Shuster won a regionalEmmy Awards forinvestigative journalism for his reporting on amanufactured housing scandal.
From 1996 to 2002, Shuster was a Washington, D.C.–based correspondent for theFox News Channel. He was atThe Pentagon at the time of theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks and led Fox's coverage of U.S. military operations inAfghanistan. During theClinton Administration, Shuster led Fox's coverage of the Clinton investigations including Whitewater, theMonica Lewinsky scandal, theStarr Report and theSenateimpeachment trial.Shuster was a member of Fox'sYou Decide 2000 political team. He spent four months onJohn McCain's "Straight Talk Express" bus and was Fox's lead correspondent for McCain's presidential campaign.
Shuster left Fox News for MSNBC/NBC in 2002. In early 2003, he traveled toQatar, where he provided coverage from theUnited States Central Command duringOperation Iraqi Freedom for hourly live reports inprime time. Later, he was inCalifornia for two months for MSNBC's television programHardball with Chris Matthews as lead correspondent on the2003 California recall election, in whichGovernorGray Davis was recalled and actorArnold Schwarzenegger was elected. In 2004 he led the show's coverage of thepresidential campaign, including leading the "ad watch team," which analyzed 150campaign ads. In all, he filed more than 700 correspondent reports for the show.
Occasionally, Shuster filled in forChris Matthews onHardball, including an interview of formerPresidentJimmy Carter. During the trial relating to thePlame affair, Shusterblogged forHardball onHardblogger about theLewis "Scooter" Libby trial and about other political matters. He also filled in for commentatorKeith Olbermann onCountdown. In August 2005, Shuster reported from the eye ofHurricane Katrina as it made landfall inBiloxi, Mississippi; His reports aired on MSNBC andNBC Nightly News. He spent several weeks reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina fromNew Orleans.
On September 24, 2007, Shuster interviewed CongresswomanMarsha Blackburn while filling in onTucker Carlson's show. When Shuster asked about her response to theMoveOn.org ad campaign concerning GeneralDavid Petraeus'sIraq War testimony, he followed up by asking her the name of the last soldier from her congressional district who had been killed inIraq. She was not able to name the soldier. Shuster then said the soldier was 18-year-old Jeremy Bohannon, and asked Blackburn why she was unable to recall the name. Blackburn's office claimed that Bohannon was not actually from Blackburn's congressional district, but was from the congressional district of Rep.John Tanner. However, while Bohannon did grow up in Tanner's district, his legal residence for the year prior to his enlistment was in Blackburn's district.[citation needed]
During his MSNBC tenure, he anchoredMSNBC Live and filled in forKeith Olbermann,Chris Matthews,Ed Schultz, andRachel Maddow on their respective shows. Shuster was MSNBC's lead "breaking news anchor", and anchored prime-time coverage of several stories including thedeath of Michael Jackson, congressional votes for health care reform, and the2010 Haiti earthquake. After the promotion ofDavid Gregory toMeet the Press in December 2008, Shuster was named host of MSNBC's 6p show,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.[8]
On February 7, 2008, while he was guest-hosting onTucker, Shuster discussedChelsea Clinton's campaigning for her motherHillary Clinton, her efforts to influence superdelegates and her refusal to answer any questions by the media. When his guest,Bill Press, pointed out that Bush's daughters campaigned for their father, Shuster noted the different access rules in each case and responded, "There's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying 'support my mom' ... doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"[citation needed]
The Clinton campaign demanded an apology and stated that Clinton might not participate in any further primary debates on MSNBC.[9] Shuster was suspended for two weeks from allNBC News and MSNBC appearances for his comments.[10][11][12] Before the suspension, Shuster had engaged in a heated e-mail exchange with a Clinton staffer in which he defended his remarks.[13]
On April 6, 2010, MSNBC announced that it had suspended Shuster for an "indefinite period" after the network learned from press reports that he andMichel Martin ofNational Public Radio had taped apilot episode for a new show onCNN without the formal approval of MSNBC.[14][15]
On June 6, 2011,Keith Olbermann andCurrent TV announced that Shuster was hired to serve as "primary substitute anchor" for the network's re-launch ofCountdown with Keith Olbermann. Starting July 29, 2011, Shuster became a regular guest-host ofCountdown. The series ended on March 30, 2012, but Shuster remained as correspondent for the network.[citation needed]
Shuster announced in February 2011 that he was seeking to launch a website for investigative journalism.[16]
In January 2012, Shuster began to host his own political talk radio show,Take Action News with David Shuster, onWPWC, a local progressive talk radio station in Washington, D.C.[17] In March of that year, the program entered syndication withWCPT in Chicago joining as the first affiliate.[18] In December, the program started internet video production via YouTube, produced byThe David Pakman Show.[citation needed]
On July 21, 2013,The Huffington Post reported that Shuster had accepted a hosting position atAl Jazeera America[19] anchoring live news shows and hosting a politics analysis show, calledPower Politics. In April 2016,Al Jazeera ceased broadcasting on cable TV across the United States. Shuster has since appeared onMSNBC'sMorning Joe.[citation needed]
On February 9, 2017, it was announced that Shuster had been named anchor and managing editor ofthe American arm of i24 News, just four days before the network began its broadcasting.[20]
In 2020, Shuster began appearing as a regular contributor to Rebel HQ, a YouTube channel that is part ofThe Young Turks's network.
Separated: Broadcaster David Shuster, 43, and journalist Julianna Goldman, 29, after 31⁄2 years of marriage.
Griffin threatened to fire Shuster "on the spot,' and it was only with intervention from Tim Russert that Shuster didn't lose his position.
By slamming any reporter who seeks to chat with chelsea while simultaneously having chelsea do campaign tasks such as trying to convince super delegates to support her mom, that's the reference. Chelsea is polite and does a fine job of saying 'I don't want to talk.'. But for campaign staff to then jump down the throat of a reporter who seeks to talk to chelsea... that's an issue.
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