David Shepardson, Washington Bureau Chief and Automotive Columnist for the Detroit News
David Shepardson is the Washington Bureau Chief of The Detroit News. He attended the University of Michigan studying history and worked as a free-lance writer for The News starting in 1993. He served as managing news editor of the student newspaper The Michigan Daily and was an intern at the Middlesex (Massachusetts) News before joining The Detroit News full-time in 1995. He covered a variety of beats in Detroit, including Downriver, Wayne County courts and the federal courts, before moving to the Washington Bureau in March 2006 to cover the auto industry. He was named bureau chief in January 2009.
In June, 2010, Mr. Shepardson was part of a team that won the Gerald Loeb award for excellence in business journalism for coverage of the financial struggles and bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler. Previously, he has twice been a finalist for the Loeb, for coverage of the bankruptcies of Kmart and Delphi. He has won a number of other investigative and other journalism awards. He regularly appears on NPR and the PBS Newshour. Shepardson, 36, lives in Washington D.C., with his wife Nicole.
