Michael D. Shear

Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shear attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California.{{Cite web|author=Politico Staff|title=BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Michael Shear, WH correspondent for the NYT|url=https://politi.co/2JpjoFL|access-date=2020-10-09|website=POLITICO|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|last1=Affairs|first1=Office of Public|last2=Claremont|first2=Communications 400 N. Claremont Blvd|title=Veteran reporter Michael Shear '90 takes readers inside President Trump's immigration battle|url=https://www.cmc.edu/news/veteran-reporter-michael-shear-%E2%80%9990-takes-readers-inside-president-trumps-immigration-battle|access-date=2020-10-09|website=cmc.edu|language=en}}

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|date=March 2019}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmc.edu/washington-program/blog/michael-shear|title=Michael Shear|website=cmc.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-04}}

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|date=March 2019}} He was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-66|title=Pulitzer Prize winners 2007|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-04}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://wjmc.gmu.edu/speakers/michael-d-shear/|title=Michael D. Shear {{!}} The Washington Journalism and Media Conference {{!}} George Mason University|website=wjmc.gmu.edu|access-date=2019-02-04}} After the election, Shear reported on domestic policy and President Donald J. Trump.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} He also made regular appearances as a political commentator on radio and television.{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?michaelshear|title=Michael Shear {{!}} C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org|access-date=2019-02-04}}

His book, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, co-written with Julie Hirschfield Davis, was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2019.{{Cite book|title=Border Wars : Inside trump's assault on immigration|last1=Davis|first1=Julie Hirschfield|last2=Shear|first2=Michael D.|date=2019-10-08|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1982117399|location=[S.l.]|oclc=1085153035}}

Shear lives with his wife and two teenage children in Virginia.{{Cite web|title=Michael D. Shear - The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-d-shear|access-date=2020-10-09|website=www.nytimes.com|language=en}}

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