Mike Shuster

Mike Shuster (July 7, 1947 – November 6, 2023) was an American journalist and blogger. He served as a diplomatic correspondent and a roving foreign correspondent for National Public Radio in the United States, where he filed over 3,000 stories by the time of his retirement in 2013.

Early life and education Mike Shuster was born in Philadelphia on July 7, 1947, to Morris Merle Shuster and Beatrice Ritta Gerber Shuster. Shuster was a photographer and editor at Liberation News Service in New York from 1969 until 1975, a supplier of reports, photos, and graphics for the underground press in the United States. In 1970 and 1976, Shuster traveled around Africa working as a freelance foreign affairs reporter. His reporting trip in 1970 culminated in a three-week visit to the liberated zones of Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony. Several years later, he spent five months reporting on Angola.

Between 1975 and 1980, Shuster was a United Nations correspondent for Pacifica News Service where he covered the election of Robert Mugabe in 1980 in Zimbabwe.

While stationed in Israel, he reported on the Second Intifada, the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and the 2006 Lebanon War. which explored Shiite faith and politics.

Later life After retiring, Shuster began producing and writing on a freelance basis. At the time of his death, he was the executive producer of The Great War Project, a website examining the impact of World War I on the world a century after it ended. He worked on television projects and on the Presidential World War I Centennial Commission. Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for coverage of the Iraq War (2007 and 2004); September 11 and the war in Afghanistan (2003); and the Gulf War (1992) Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award in 2003 for "The Middle East: A Century of Conflict" First in Documentary Reporting from the National Headliner Awards Honorable mention from the Overseas Press Club in 1999 SAJA Journalism Award in 1998