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 4, 2006

     The CBS “Evening News” recently hinted that more regulation, not less, is needed to improve the nation’s electrical grid.

 

     Reporter Trish Regan’s August 3 story displayed a…

Ken Shepherd | August 3, 2006

     Are you a Republican politician yearning for approval by The Washington Post? All it takes is standing up for tax increases or for hiking the minimum wage.

     In separate articles in the August 3 Post, reporters Jeffrey Birnbaum…

Ken Shepherd | August 3, 2006

     As Congress debated sending a minimum wage increase to President’s Bush desk for signing, ABC’s Betsy Stark promised “A Closer Look” at the issue but delivered anything but.

     In her August 2 “World News Tonight” story, Stark…

Ken Shepherd | August 2, 2006

     “Stop and drop those tongs,” because salads might not be good for you after all, warned NBC’s Campbell Brown as she teased a “Today’s Consumer” segment on the morning show’s August 2 program.

 

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Ken Shepherd | August 2, 2006

     Raul Castro: a free enterprise-friendly Communist?

 

     That’s how NBC’s Andrea Mitchell portrayed the 75-year old brother of Cuba dictator Fidel Castro in her report on the August…

Ken Shepherd | August 1, 2006

     As sure as the sun rises in the east, when a heat wave engulfs the continental United States, it dawns on the media that “global warming” may be to blame. Such was the case with CBS’s Bob Orr on the July 31 “Evening News…