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 joined the Fox News Channel, again based in Washington, D.C.. For Fox News he covered Bill Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater scandal, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Starr Report, and the Senate impeachment trial. He was at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 when a terrorist-controlled plane crashed into it. After 9/11, he headed Fox News' coverage of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
Shuster left Fox News for MSNBC and NBC. In 2003 he was in California for two months for MSNBC's television program Hardball with Chris Matthews as lead correspondent on the recall of Governor Gray Davis and the subsequent election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then he traveled to Qatar, where he provided coverage from the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on the 2003 invasion of Iraq for hourly "live" reports in prime time. In 2004 he led the show's coverage of the presidential campaign, including leading the ad watch team, which analyzed 150 campaign commercials.
Occasionally, Shuster fills in for Chris Matthews on Hardball with Chris Matthews. Recently, he interviewed former President Jimmy Carter on the show. During the trial relating to the Plame affair, United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, also known as "Scooter Libby", Shuster has been blogging for Hardball with Chris Matthews on Hardblogger about the trial and about other political matters.
