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Robert Scheer

American writer, activist and tax resister

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Born: April 4, 1936
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-05-06
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Birthplace: The Bronx
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: columnist
, journalist
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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, university teacher
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Education: Syracuse University
, City College of New York
, University of California, Berkeley
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Employer: University of Southern California
, University of California, Los Angeles

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Robert Scheer is an American journalist and professor who has written for Ramparts, the Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Hustler Magazine, Truthdig, ScheerPost and other publications as well as having written many books. His column for Truthdig was 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. Scheer is the former editor in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. Scheer’s work tends to embrace left-wing politics, and for many years, he co-hosted the nationally syndicated political analysis radio program Left, Right & Center on National Public Radio (NPR), produced at public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Scheer the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for his column.

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Given name: Robert
Sex or gender: male
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2024-06-25
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Member of political party: Democratic Party
Social media followers: 9,961(February 13, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 150808638
8,199(January 4, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 150808638
7,014(May 2, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 150808638
Family name: Scheer
Awards: Izzy Award(2011)
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1.ithaca.edu/academics/roy-h-park-school-communications/park-center-independent-media/annual-izzy-award
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The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism(1989)
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