Scherer Named WH Correspondent By TIME

From the release:

TIME has named Michael Scherer its new White House correspondent, a role in which he will cover the President, the Vice President and much of the day-to-day news out of the Obama Administration.

Scherer, who joined TIME as a Washington correspondent in December 2007, traveled extensively with Sen. John McCain during the 2008 campaign and later covered Obama during his transition to office. He also is a regular contributor to TIME.com’s political blog, Swampland, along with veteran TIME journalists Joe Klein and Karen Tumulty.

Prior to joining TIME, Scherer was the Washington correspondent for Salon.com. Previously, he worked at Mother Jones and the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Mass. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Parade, The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review.

Scherer received an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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