Michael Scherer (journalist)

Scherer received a B.A. in literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He later completed a Masters at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.{{Cite news |last=WashPostPR |date=2017-08-28 |title=Michael Scherer joins The Washington Post as national political reporter |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/08/28/michael-scherer-joins-the-washington-post-as-national-political-reporter/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}

Scherer started his career as a reporter at Mother Jones before he was made Washington correspondent for Salon. He was recruited to join TIME in 2007 and was the magazine’s White House correspondent until he was promoted to Washington bureau chief in 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/08/scherer-joins-washington-post.html|title=Humanities alum Michael Scherer joins 'Washington Post' as national political reporter|last=Rappaport|first=Scott|website=UC Santa Cruz News|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19}} He moved to The Washington Post in 2017 and to The Atlantic at the very end of 2024.{{cite news |last1=Herzlich |first1=Taylor |title=Two more top reporters flee Washington Post for further-left pasture |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-more-top-reporters-flee-200644593.html |access-date=8 January 2025 |publisher=The New York Post}}{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Charlotte |date=2025-06-19 |title=Are You a $300,000 Writer? |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-a-team-inside-the-atlantics-expensive-hiring-spree.html |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=Intelligencer |language=en}}

Scherer regularly appears on PBS's Washington Week and C-SPAN.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2017/12/the-washington-posts-michael-scherer-breaks-down-the-alabama-senate-race|title=The Washington Post's Michael Scherer breaks down the Alabama Senate race|last=|first=|date=2017-12-02|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2019-02-19}}

Scherer won the National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Excellence in 2012 for his work covering the Obama re-election campaign.{{Cite web|url=https://alumniwriters.ucsc.edu/2014/05/18/42/|title=Michael Scherer {{!}} Alumni Writers UCSC|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-19}}{{Cite web |date=2024-12-31 |title=Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer to Join The Atlantic as Staff Writers |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2024/12/ashley-parker-and-michael-scherer-join-atlantic/681190/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}} In 2014, Scherer won the New York Press Club Award for Political Coverage for a cover story on the US government shutdown in 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/time-makes-several-hires-and-promotions-names-michael-scherer-washington-bureau-chief/|title=Time Makes Several Hires and Promotions, Names Michael Scherer Washington Bureau Chief|website=www.adweek.com|date=15 July 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-19}}

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