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 | July 24, 2006

     It’s a slow news day and you’re an environment reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper. What do you do to kill time before your bicycle ride home? If you’re The Washington Post’s Michael Grunwald, you might pen a…

Ken Shepherd | July 21, 2006

      ABC’s Charles Gibson gave viewers of the July 20 “World News Tonight” little to chew on when he told them the government was scaling back testing for mad cow disease. The anchor only put forth the anti-industry side…

Ken Shepherd | July 20, 2006

     On July 19, a federal judge struck down a state law aimed at punishing Wal-Mart for spending “too little” on health insurance. The next day’s coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post portrayed the court case…

Ken Shepherd | July 19, 2006

     A think tank with ties to liberal financier George Soros was called simply as “nonprofit” in a recent New York Times article on privatized prisons.

 

     “The increasing…

Ken Shepherd | July 19, 2006

     Washington Post food writer Candy Sagon gave a sour assessment of her grocery store quandaries in her July 19 article “Is There Anything Left That We Can Eat?”

 

     Sagon’s latest…

Ken Shepherd | July 18, 2006

     Greedy drug companies are making a killing off the medicine cabinets of the poor, complained New York Times correspondent Milt Freudenheim in his July 18 article “A Windfall from Shifts to Medicare.”

     Yet while the Times…