Michael Scherer is an American journalist. He is currently a reporter for ''

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''. He previously wrote for ''

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,'' covering the

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and

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Education

Scherer received a B.A. in literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He later completed a Masters at the

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Career

Scherer started his career as a reporter at '' Mother Jones'' before he was made Washington correspondent for ''

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''. He was recruited to join

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in 2007 and was the magazine’s

correspondent until he was promoted to Washington bureau chief in 2009. He moved to ''The Washington Post'' in 2017 and to ''The Atlantic'' at the very end of 2024. Scherer regularly appears on

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's '' Washington Week'' and ''

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''.

Awards

Scherer won the National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Excellence in 2012 for his work covering the Obama re-election campaign. In 2014, Scherer won the

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Award for Political Coverage for a cover story on the US government shutdown in 2013.

References

External links

Michael Scherer on

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