Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro has covered the last seven presidential campaigns as a newspaper columnist and a news magazine writer. He is the author of One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before American Tunes In. Shapiro just completed a nine-year stint as the twice-weekly political columnist for USA Today. From 1993 to 1996 he wrote a monthly column on the Clinton administration for Esquire magazine. He covered the 1988 and 1992 elections as a senior writer for Time magazine and the 1984 race for Newsweek. He was on the staff of the Washington Post from 1979-83. During the Carter administration, Mr. Shapiro was a White House speechwriter and a special assistant to the Secretary of Labor. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in history. While at the Shorenstein Center, Mr. Shapiro examined the changing role of the newspaper column in the public debate.