Robert Scheer (born April 4, 1936) is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig that is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation. He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California and co-hosts the weekly political radio program Left, Right & Center on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, California. Scheer is editor-in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Scheer the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for his column.
Scheer was raised in the Bronx, where he attended public schools and graduated from City College of New York. He studied as a Maxwell fellow at Syracuse University and was a fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley, where he did graduate work in economics. Scheer is a contributing editor for The Nation as well as a Nation Fellow. He has also been a Poynter fellow at Yale, and was a fellow in arms control at Stanford.
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Scheer can be heard on the political radio program "Left, Right and Center" on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, and elsewhere.
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Teaches "Media & Society" as a professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California.
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Has edited several publications, including, in the investigative magazine Ramparts in the '60s, and the online magazines Online Journalism Review and (currently) Truthdig.com.
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Has authored seven books, the most recent being "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq" (co-author) and "Playing President," a collection of his interviews with five U.S. Presidents: Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Some of his earlier books include, "Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power," "With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War," and "America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals.".
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Came to work for the Los Angeles Times as a national correspondent in the mid-1970s. There he met his future wife, then-reporter Narda Zacchino. In the mid-90s he became a weekly columnist for the paper and continued in that role until 2006, when the Times canceled the column. The weekly column is now published by the San Francisco Chronicle every Wednesday.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
La vuelta del perro
2007
Short
The Siege
1998
Capitol Week Pundit
Bulworth
1998
Journalist
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Citizen Stan
2004
Documentary co-producer
Production Manager
Title
Year
Status
Character
On Screen!
2008
TV Series documentary production coordinator - 1 episode
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nixon
1995
project consultant
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Documentary
Himself
Occupy Los Angeles
2012
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Democracy Now!
2010
TV Series
Himself
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
Documentary
Himself
Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone
2007
Documentary
Himself
Now
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Rush to War
2004
Documentary
Himself
Citizen Stan
2004
Documentary
Himself
George W. Bush: Faith in the White House
2004
Video documentary
Himself
Firing Line
1967
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Known for movies
Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone (2007) as Himself
Citizen Stan (2004) as Producer
The Siege (1998) as Capitol Week Pundit
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009) as Himself
$1.7 Million
