David Shuster

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David Shuster is a correspondent for Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC and for other MSNBC and NBC News programs. Recently Shuster began appearing as an occasional news break anchor and host for MSNBC.

Based in Washington, D.C., Shuster is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who in August 2006 was awarded the Bugle Award by the Disabled American Veterans, an organization that counts 1.3 million people in its membership. The award was given to Shuster for his coverage of the 2005 National Disabled Veterans Sports Clinic and the hour-long special that accompanied it on MSNBC.

A native of Bloomington, Indiana, Shuster graduated with honors from the University of Michigan and started his journalism career at CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau. He was an assignment editor and field producer from 1990 to 1994, covering both the Persian Gulf War and the 1992 presidential election campaign.

Shuster left CNN in 1994 to become a political reporter for KATV, an ABC affiliate in Little Rock, Arkansas, covering the Whitewater trial. It was at KATV where he won a regional Emmy Award for investigative journalism for his reporting on a manufactured housing scandal.

In 1996 Shuster switched allegiances and joined the Fox News Channel, once again based in the U.S. capital. Shuster was at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 when a terrorist-controlled plane crashed into the bastion of American national defence. He went on to head up the network's coverage of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, as well as covering Bill Clinton's involvement in Whitewater, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Starr Report and the Senate impeachment trial.

Shuster left Fox News for MSNBC and NBC and in 2003 was in California for two months as Hardball's lead correspondent on the recall of Governor Gray Davis and the subsequent election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He then went to Qatar and provided coverage from the U.S. Central Command on the American invasion of Iraq, where he provided hourly "live" reports in prime time. The following year he led the show's coverage of the 2004 presidential campaign, including leading the ad watch team, which analyzed 150 campaign commercials.

Shuster also occasionally fills in for Chris Matthews on Hardball. Shuster recently had the opportunity to interview former President Jimmy Carter