Shaun Waterman
Award-winning journalist reporting on cybersecurity and other technology threats.
- Role
- Cybersecurity Correspondent at Newsweek
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shaun Waterman
Shaun Waterman is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the BBC, United Press International and POLITICO, and an expert on cybersecurity and counter-terrorism who has presented at leading conferences like Hacker Halted and the Aspen Security Forum. Shaun is also a seasoned newsroom manager and business leader who has, in the last eight years, launched and run two of the best-respected and most widely read DC daily cybersecurity newsletters — POLITICO Pro\'s Morning Cybersecurity and Scoop News Group\'s CyberScoop. Shaun became UPI\'s Homeland and National Security Editor shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, covering the Department of Homeland Security from its standup in 2003. His reporting on the Sept. 11 Commission and the tortuous process by which some of its recommendations finally became law in the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act earned him a \"Dateline Washington\" award from the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2009-10 Shaun produced a major report on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a leading Washington think tank. From 20••••13, he wrote about intelligence, national security and energing cyber conflicts as a staff reporter for The Washington Times - earning a second \"Dateline Washington\" award. Prior to joining UPI, Shaun worked as a senior producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. In he was appointed to run the BBC’s American radio news desk in Washington, providing round-the-clock news from all over both American continents. Before joining the BBC, he worked as a freelance journalist and parliamentary aide in London, writing for publications including the investigative magazine Private Eye. Shaun, who is British, has a master’s degree in social and political sciences from King’s College, Cambridge. He is married and lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three American sons, Miles, Harry and Peter.
Experience
Cybersecurity Correspondent
Jun 2022 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Cybersecurity reporter on the enterprise news team.
Education
The Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' School
Three "A" levels, History, English Literature, Political Science
1976 — 1983
University of Cambridge
MA, History and Social and political sciences
1984 — 1988
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