David Shuster
David Martin Shuster (born July 22, 1967) is an American television journalist who has worked for MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Current TV, The Young Turks, Al Jazeera America, and i24 News, where he served as principal anchor and managing editor.
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Shuster grew up in a Jewish family. He graduated from Bloomington High School South in 1985, earned honors from the University of Michigan, and earned a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University.
Shuster’s career began at CNN in Washington, D.C. (1990–1994) as an assignment editor and field producer. He then reported for KATV in Little Rock (1994–1995), covering the Whitewater scandal. He joined Fox News (1996–2002), reporting from the Pentagon after 9/11 and covering Clinton-era investigations.
He moved to MSNBC in 2002, where he anchored major breaking-news coverage, including the death of Michael Jackson, the passage of health-care reform, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He was suspended from MSNBC in 2008 for comments about Chelsea Clinton and again in 2010 after secretly taping a CNN pilot without approval.
After MSNBC, Shuster worked for Current TV on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and hosted his own political radio show, Take Action News, beginning in 2012. In 2013 he joined Al Jazeera America as the host of Power Politics. When Al Jazeera ceased US operations in 2016, he appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and, in 2017, was named anchor and managing editor of the American arm of i24 News. Since 2020, he has regularly contributed to Rebel HQ on The Young Turks network.
Shuster has two children. He was married to Julianna Goldman from 2007 to 2011 and married Kera Rennert in 2013.
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