Industry Vision: Choices, Challenges and Opportunity: PEV Technology and the Consumer
David Shepardson
Washington Bureau Chief
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 beginning 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 the federal courts, before moving to the Washington Bureau in 2006 to cover the auto industry. He was named bureau chief in January 2009.
Mr. Shepardson won the Gerald Loeb award for excellence in business journalism in 2009 for coverage of the auto industry, and was a finalist on two prior occasions. He has won a number of other journalism awards.
