Ken Shepherd
Former NewsBusters Managing Editor

Ken Shepherd lives in New Carrollton, Md., with his wife, Laura, and four children. Ken graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland in 2001 with a Bachelors of Arts in Government & Politics and a citation in Public Leadership. 

Ken worked for the Media Research Center from May 2001 to April 2016. He served as NewsBusters Managing Editor from 2007 until April 2016. Currently, he serves as "a universal-desk editor and digital writer" for The Washington Times.

In his spare time, Ken enjoys karaoke, tennis, reading, and discussing theology or politics.

Ken Shepherd | October 20, 2006

     Conspiracy theories involving Republicans and “Big Oil” are more newsworthy to The Washington Post than an international oil cartel’s moves to pump up prices.

     While The Washington Post recently highlighted in its Business…

Ken Shepherd | October 18, 2006

     Are you happy that gas prices are down to earth again? Good, now’s the perfect time to tax you more for it, if only it wasn’t political suicide to do so.

    That’s the tone Washington Post reporter Steve Mufson took in his October…

Ken Shepherd | October 18, 2006

     Hours before Lou Dobbs’s “War on the Middle Class” special was set to air on CNN, the October 18 New York Times poked holes in one of the fears Dobbs has often peddled to viewers –  the “threat” to the U.S. auto…

Ken Shepherd | October 18, 2006

     “The middle class still says generally it feels like the American Dream is a lost cause.”

     Thus began the last 12 hours of CNN’s in-house PR push for Lou Dobbs’s October 18 special “War on the Middle Class.” Dobbs himself has…

Ken Shepherd | October 17, 2006

     The second day into Prescription For Change, a weeklong series on American health care, ABC News revealed its recent poll found nearly 9 out of 10 Americans are happy with their health care. But rather than finding the statistic an…

Ken Shepherd | October 16, 2006

     In search of a “Prescription for Change” for “fixing American health care,” anchor Dan Harris of ABC’s “World News Sunday” promised viewers a weeklong look at “one of the most urgent and expensive issues facing this country.” But the…