David Shuster
David Shuster (* 1967 in Bloomington , Indiana ) is an American journalist and television presenter.
Life and work
Youth and education
Shuster was born to Arnold Shuster and Susan Klein. Another son, Jonathan Shuster, was born from the marriage. He grew up alternately with his mother and stepfather Robert Agranoff and with his father and stepmother Rose Mahern-Shuster. After attending Bloomington High School South, he studied at the University of Michigan. He is currently doing his Master of Arts in International Affairs at Georgetown University .
Early journalistic career (1990 to 2002)
Shuster began his journalistic career in the Washington office of news channel CNN . There he worked as an editor and producer from 1990 to 1994. During this time he accompanied, among other things, the Second Gulf War and the presidential election campaign of 1992. In 1994, Shuster switched to the ABC spade station KATV in Little Rock, for whom he talked about the Whitewater scandal and the proceedings against the then governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker reported. During that time, he received an Emmy Award for investigative journalism.
In 1996 Shuster left KATV to work for Fox News . For this he worked as a correspondent in Washington DC until 2002. For this he headed the reporting on the various scandals with which US President Bill Clinton was confronted in his second term in office: the Lewinsky scandal and the Whitewater affair as well as the Starr report on these events and the failed impeachment proceedings against Clinton. During the US presidential campaign in 2000, Shuster was part of the correspondent team that oversaw the nomination campaign within the two major US parties and the actual election campaign for Fox News, for which he spent four months meeting the American candidate for Republican candidacy John McCain in his campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, escorted. Shuster experienced the events of September 11th as a correspondent at the Pentagon. He then reported for Fox on the American military strike against Afghanistan.
MSNBC Careers 2002-2010
In 2002 Shuster switched to competing channel MSNBC . For this he reported in 2003, during the Third Gulf War, from the American headquarters in Qatar. Later that year, he watched the early elections in California, from which Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged victorious, as a correspondent for the daily news magazine Hardball with Chris Matthews . In 2004 Shuster took over the coverage of the US presidential campaign that year for the same show. Among other things, he took over the leadership of a working group known as the "ad watch team" for the program, which took on the analysis of one hundred and fifty election advertising spots. In total, Shuster has delivered more than seven hundred box-office films for Hardball during his membership of the show's staff . In August 2005, Shuster reported from New Orleans about the devastation and public unrest there caused by Hurricane Katrina.
In February 2008 Shuster was suspended from his broadcaster as a presenter for two weeks (February 10-22) after he was the guest presenter of the program Countdown with Keith Olbermann on February 9, the political commitment of Chelsea Clinton , which was then in the primary campaign to put up the Democratic Party presidential candidacy for her mother Hillary Clinton, commenting that it seemed to him that the Clinton campaign team was pimping Clinton forward in a bizarre way, so to speak ( doesn 't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out there in some weird sort of way? ).
From 2008 until the show was discontinued in April 2009, Shuster was the successor to David Gregory regular presenter of 1600 Pennsylvania , a news and information show on MSNBC's early evening program. In this program, he presented, among other things, a column called Hypocricy Watch (view of mendacity, meaning: uncovered mendacity), in which he pointed out to his viewers mendacious statements or behavior by leading personalities from politics and business. The Conservative Media Research Center later published a study looking at the items in the rubric that found that of forty-eight issues of Hypocricy Watch, 71% looked at Republicans, 15% business leaders, and 4% Democrats. As in previous years, Shuster has been the occasional guest presenter of Hardball with Chris Matthews and Countdown with Keith Olbermann since April 2009 .
In April 2010 he was finally dismissed by his employer after several temporary leave of absence due to controversial statements. The reason for this was that Shuster had recorded a pilot for the competing broadcaster CNN without the knowledge of MSNBC.
Private life
Shuster has been married to journalist Julianna Lee Goldman since May 27, 2007. The marriage ceremony took place in the Sixth & Historic Synagogue in Washington. The two currently live in Washington DC
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shuster, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bloomington (Indiana) |