Michael D. Shear

Michael D. Shear
Shear at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
EducationClaremont McKenna College (BA)
Harvard University (MPP)
OccupationJournalist
Years active1989-present
EmployerThe New York Times
AwardsPulitzer Prize (2007)

Michael D. Shear is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. 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.