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 | August 31, 2006

     What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.

     In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.

Ken Shepherd | August 30, 2006

     “Gee, I’d love to be fair and balanced, but I tried even less than I did two days ago.”

 

     That’s what CNN’s Ali Velshi might as well have said in his August 30 story on “American…

Ken Shepherd | August 30, 2006

      Happy with the falling prices at the pump? Fuhgeddaboudit!

 

     That’s what economic wiseguy Matt Lauer suggested to viewers of the August 30 “Today” show, even though oil…

Ken Shepherd | August 29, 2006

     “We’re working ourselves to death,” Diane Sawyer concluded from a new University of California study on blood pressure and work. But the “Good Morning America” host left out some key information in her August 29 interview with a…

Ken Shepherd | August 29, 2006

     “Life’s got to be a little better if gas is going down,” in price, teacher Lisa Craig told reporters in an August 29 Washington Post article on falling gas prices. But while Post staff writers Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Chris Kirkham found…

Ken Shepherd | August 28, 2006

     CNN’s Allen Wastler recently dialed up pro-regulation rhetoric in a rant against Verizon (NYSE: VZ). “These telecoms. Somebody ought to regulate them, huh?” a nearly apoplectic Allen Wastler asked his colleagues as he…