Michael Scherer
Michael Scherer
Michael Scherer is the Washington Bureau Chief for TIME Magazine. Scherer lives in NYC and hails originally from San Francisco.
Education
Scherer is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also holds a BA from UC Santa Cruz.
Career
Scherer joined Time in December 2007.
He was named White House correspondent in January 2009 and has been Washington Bureau Chief since 2013.
He is also the author of 20 TIME magazine cover stories, including the 2012 and 2016 Person of the Year. He joined TIME in December 2007 as a campaign reporter covering Republicans during the 2008 election. He was named White House correspondent in January 2009, traveling around the world with President Barack Obama.
Scherer won the National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Excellence for his articles on the 2012 Obama reelection effort, and the 2014 New York Press Club Award for Political Coverage.
He served as a member of the board of the White House Correspondents Association from 2010 to 2013.
Before joining TIME, Scherer was the Washington correspondent for Salon. He has also worked as the Washington correspondent for Mother Jones, an assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review and a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette.