Scott Shuster
US business journalist, corporate events moderator
Scott Shuster is a US broadcast journalist and a professional event moderator and interviewer of senior business executives at corporate events.
For many years he was a foreign correspondent of ABC News (US), and was one of the early producers of All Things Considered at National Public Radio (NPR). Later he became the editorial director for live events within the BusinessWeek Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies.
Shuster has conducted over 5,000 live interviews of management leaders before audiences of their business peers at corporate, industry, professional, and governmental policy and investment events around the world.
Early life and education
Scott Shuster is a native of Greendale, Wisconsin. He received the first B.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and also studied Political Science (Latin America) at Marquette University.
He later gained an MBA degree at Switzerland's IMEDE/IMD, International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland. Scott has been a member of the adjunct faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and has spoken widely on the governance of journalism and communications, including a French-language tour of francophone African countries for the United States Information Agency.
Career
Radio and television
Scott Shuster became a local radio newscaster in Milwaukee at age 16 while still in high school (radio stations WRIT-FM and WOKY). By 18 he was on television delivering the 11 o’clock news on Milwaukee's WVTV-TV, and by age 24 he was the highest-rated local television news presenter in the US, at WTVT, the CBS affiliate in Tampa-St.Petersburg, Florida.
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