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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
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and worked for
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, CNN,
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,
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and
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. 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. 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
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's re-launch of ''
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''. In January 2012, Shuster began hosting his own syndicated political talk radio show. In July 2013, he was hired to host a show on
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.


Early and personal life

Shuster was born to a
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family in
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, 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. David Shuster graduated in 1985 from
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, and with honors from the
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. He earned a Master's in Public Policy at
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. He married journalist Julianna Goldman on May 27, 2007, at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in
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On January 10, 2011, ''
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'' reported that Goldman and Shuster had separated. They had no children. On July 23, 2012, Shuster announced his engagement to Kera Rennert, a television writer and producer. 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.


Career


Early career

Shuster 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
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and the 1992 presidential election campaign. Shuster left CNN in 1994 to become a political reporter for the ABC affiliate KATV in
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, covering the Whitewater scandal. During this period, Shuster led KATV's coverage of the indictment, trial, conviction, and resignation of Arkansas Governor
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. At KATV, Shuster won a regional
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for
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for his reporting on a manufactured housing scandal.


Fox News

From 1996 to 2002, Shuster was a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for the
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. He was at
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at the time of the
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and led Fox's coverage of U.S. military operations in
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. During the
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, Shuster led Fox's coverage of the Clinton investigations including Whitewater, the
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scandal, the
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and the
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. Shuster was a member of Fox's ''You Decide 2000'' political team. He spent four months on
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's "Straight Talk Express" bus and was Fox's lead correspondent for McCain's presidential campaign.


MSNBC

Shuster left Fox News for MSNBC/NBC in 2002. In early 2003, he traveled to
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, where he provided coverage from the
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during
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for hourly live reports in
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. Later, he was in
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for two months for MSNBC's television program ''
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'' as lead correspondent on the 2003 California recall election, in which
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was recalled and actor
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was elected. In 2004 he led the show's coverage of the
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, 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
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on ''Hardball'', including an interview of former
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. During the trial relating to the
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, Shuster
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ged for ''Hardball'' on ''Hardblogger'' about the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial and about other political matters. He also filled in for commentator
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on ''
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''. In August 2005, Shuster reported from the eye of
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as it made landfall in
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; His reports aired on MSNBC and ''
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''. He spent several weeks reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from
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. On September 24, 2007, Shuster interviewed Congresswoman
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while filling in on
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's show. When Shuster asked about her response to the MoveOn.org ad campaign concerning General
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's
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testimony, he followed up by asking her the name of the last soldier from her congressional district who had been killed in
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. 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. However, while Bohannon did grow up in Tanner's district, his legal residence for the year prior to his enlistment was in Blackburn's district. During his MSNBC tenure, he anchored '' MSNBC Live'' and filled in for
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,
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, Ed Schultz, and
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on their respective shows. Shuster was MSNBC's lead "breaking news anchor", and anchored prime-time coverage of several stories including the
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, congressional votes for health care reform, and the
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. After the promotion of David Gregory to ''
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'' in December 2008, Shuster was named host of MSNBC's 6p show, '' 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue''.


Chelsea Clinton remark and suspension

On February 7, 2008, while he was guest-hosting on ''
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'', Shuster discussed
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's campaigning for her mother
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, her efforts to influence superdelegates and her refusal to answer any questions by the media. When his guest, Bill Press, pointed out that Bush's daughters campaigned for their father, Shuster noted the different access rules in each case and responded, "There's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying 'support my mom' ... doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" The Clinton campaign demanded an apology and stated that Clinton might not participate in any further primary debates on MSNBC. Shuster was suspended for two weeks from all
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and MSNBC appearances for his comments. Before the suspension, Shuster had engaged in a heated e-mail exchange with a Clinton staffer in which he defended his remarks.


Departure from MSNBC

On April 6, 2010, MSNBC announced that it had suspended Shuster for an "indefinite period" after the network learned from press reports that he and Michel Martin of
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had taped a
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for a new show on CNN without the formal approval of MSNBC.


Current TV

On June 6, 2011,
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and
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announced that Shuster was hired to serve as "primary substitute anchor" for the network's re-launch of ''
Countdown with Keith Olbermann ''Countdown with Keith Olbermann'' is an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program hosted by Keith Olbermann that aired on MSNBC from 2003 to 2011 and on Current TV from 2011 to 2012. The show presented five selected news stories ...
''. Starting July 29, 2011, Shuster became a regular guest-host of ''Countdown''. The series ended on March 30, 2012, but Shuster remained as correspondent for the network.


Internet venture

Shuster announced in February 2011 that he was seeking to launch a website for investigative journalism.


Talk radio

In January 2012, Shuster began to host his own political talk radio show, ''Take Action News with David Shuster'', on WPWC, a local progressive talk radio station in Washington, D.C. In March of that year, the program entered syndication with WCPT in Chicago joining as the first affiliate. In December, the program started internet video production via YouTube, produced by '' The David Pakman Show''.


Al Jazeera America

On July 21, 2013, ''
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'' reported that Shuster had accepted a hosting position at ''
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'' anchoring live news shows and hosting a politics analysis show, called ''Power Politics''. In April 2016, ''Al Jazeera'' ceased broadcasting on cable TV across the United States. Shuster has since appeared on
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's ''
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''.


i24 News

On February 9, 2017, it was announced that Shuster had been named anchor and managing editor of the American arm of i24 News, just four days before the network began its broadcasting.


TYT Network

In 2020, Shuster began appearing as a regular contributor to Rebel HQ, a YouTube channel that is part of
The Young Turks ''The Young Turks'' (TYT) is an American progressive news commentary show on YouTube that additionally appears on selected television channels. TYT serves as the flagship program of the TYT Network, a multi-channel network of associated web se ...
's network.


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