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 | February 21, 2006
     CNNs got a fever, and the only prescription is more hype. Thats the diagnosis a viewer of the February 21 American Morning could draw from co-host Soledad OBrien clucking about the threat of an…
Ken Shepherd | February 20, 2006
     Those free samples your doctor gives when youre sick are a symptom of an amoral market-based health care system, argues a left-leaning doctor. But to the crew of CNNs In the Money, Dr. Jerome…
Ken Shepherd | February 20, 2006
     Who needs NBCs coverage of Olympic ice dancing when CBS was thrilling viewers with visions of Waterworld? No, not the 1995 Kevin Costner clunker, but an apocalyptic 60 Minutes report awash…
Ken Shepherd | February 17, 2006
     Greenlands glaciers are either growing or shrinking, depending on which study you read.      The media took global warming off the back burner this week to hype an isolated study showing…
Ken Shepherd | February 16, 2006
     The day after Ben Bernanke testified for the first time as Federal Reserve chairman before Congress, his textbook co-author called for substantially higher taxes on gasoline. Robert Frank, a Cornell…
Ken Shepherd | February 15, 2006
     Since the early January Sago Mine tragedy, most media have generally slanted coverage of the U.S. mining industry in a negative direction focusing coverage on mining regulations as too weak, fines too…