David Shuster

David Martin Shuster (born July 22, 1967) is an American television journalist and talk radio host.

He most recently served as principal anchor and managing editor for i24 News, previously serving as an anchor for MSNBC and worked for Fox News, CNN, Current TV, The Young Turks and Al Jazeera America.

Shuster's career at MSNBC included anchoring prime time breaking news coverage of the death of Michael Jackson, the passage in Congress of historic health care reform, and the deadly earthquake in Haiti.

David Shuster graduated in 1985 from Bloomington High School South, and with honors from the University of Michigan.

He earned a Master's in Public Policy at Georgetown University.

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 the ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas, covering the Whitewater scandal.

During this period, Shuster led KATV's coverage of the indictment, trial, conviction, and resignation of Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker.

At KATV, Shuster won a regional Emmy Awards for investigative journalism for his reporting on a manufactured housing scandal.

From 1996 to 2002, Shuster was a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for the Fox News Channel.

Shuster was a member of Fox's You Decide 2000 political team.

He spent four months on John McCain's "Straight Talk Express" bus and was Fox's lead correspondent for McCain's presidential campaign.

He was at The Pentagon at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks and led Fox's coverage of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.

During the Clinton Administration, Shuster led Fox's coverage of the Clinton investigations including Whitewater, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Starr Report and the Senate impeachment trial.

Shuster left Fox News for MSNBC/NBC in 2002.

In early 2003, he traveled to Qatar, where he provided coverage from the United States Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom for hourly live reports in prime time.

Later, he was in California for two months for MSNBC's television program Hardball with Chris Matthews as lead correspondent on the 2003 California recall election, in which Governor Gray Davis was recalled and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected.

In 2004 he led the show's coverage of the presidential campaign, including leading the "ad watch team," which analyzed 150 campaign ads.

In all, he filed more than 700 correspondent reports for the show.

Occasionally, Shuster filled in for Chris Matthews on Hardball, including an interview of former President Jimmy Carter.

During the trial relating to the Plame affair, Shuster blogged for Hardball on Hardblogger about the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial and about other political matters.

He also filled in for commentator Keith Olbermann on Countdown.

In August 2005, Shuster reported from the eye of Hurricane Katrina as it made landfall in Biloxi, Mississippi; His reports aired on MSNBC and NBC Nightly News.

He spent several weeks reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans.

He married journalist Julianna Goldman on May 27, 2007, at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. On January 10, 2011, The Washington Post reported that Goldman and Shuster had separated.

They had no children.

On September 24, 2007, Shuster interviewed Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn while filling in on Tucker Carlson's show.

When Shuster asked about her response to the MoveOn.org ad campaign concerning General David Petraeus's Iraq War testimony, he followed up by asking her the name of the last soldier from her congressional district who had been killed in Iraq.

She was not able to name the soldier.

Shuster then said the soldier was 18-year-old Jeremy Bohannon, and asked Blackburn why she was unable to recall the name.

Blackburn's office claimed that Bohannon was not actually from Blackburn's congressional district, but was from the congressional district of Rep. John Tanner.

He was suspended from MSNBC in April 2010 after secretly auditioning for a new CNN show.

After MSNBC, Shuster was hired to serve as "primary substitute anchor" for Current TV's re-launch of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

In January 2012, Shuster began hosting his own syndicated political talk radio show.

On July 23, 2012, Shuster announced his engagement to Kera Rennert, a television writer and producer.

In July 2013, he was hired to host a show on Al Jazeera America.

Shuster was born to a Jewish family in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of Arnold Shuster of Bloomington and Susan Klein of Nashville, Indiana, and stepson of Robert Agranoff (married to his mother) and Rose Mahern-Shuster (married to his father).

He has one living brother, Jonathan.

Shuster and Rennert married on February 16, 2013, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art in New York City and welcomed their first child in 2013.

Shuster started his journalism career at CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau.