A veteran political correspondent, Michael D. Shear is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. He regularly appears on CNN and MSNBC.

In 2010, Shear moved to the Washington bureau of The New York Times as a political correspondent. He covered Barack Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and in 2013 returned to his role as a White House correspondent for the Times. He covered the 2016 presidential election. After the election, Shear reported on domestic policy and President Donald J. Trump. He also made regular appearances as a political commentator on radio and television.

His book, "Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration," co-written with Julie Hirschfield Davis, was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2019.

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