About Mike Shuster
Mike Shuster worked for National Public Radio for thirty years. First as an editor on NPR’s flagship program All Things Consider, then as NPR’s correspondent in New York City.
In 1989, Shuster went to work for NPR’s foreign desk, first as bureau chief in London, during which he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany and Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
In 1991 he became NPR’s chief correspondent in Moscow, where he covered the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the new Russia.
After three years in Moscow, he became a roving foreign correspondent for NPR. Among the stories he covered were the wars in the Balkans, the 9/11 attacks, the American invasion of Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In 2003 he won an Overseas Press Club award for a series on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He was also a part of NPR teams that over the years won several Peabody and DuPont Awards.
He left NPR in 2013. He is executive producer of The Great War Project, a website marking the centennial of the First World War. He is also a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA.
He attended Williams College.