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Christopher Scheer

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Christopher Scheer (born September 8, 1968) is an American writer and editor. He is the son of veteran journalist Robert Scheer, and has co-authored two Los Angeles Times bestellers with him.[1][2]

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Scheer was born in Berkeley, California. His parents are lawyer Anne Butterfield Weills and journalist Robert Scheer.[3]

A graduate of Berkeley High School (1985) and UC Santa Barbara (1990), he co-founded and edited Prognosis, an English-language newspaper in Prague.[4][5] Later, he worked with Oliver Stone as a creative consultant on the Academy-award nominated script for Nixon,[6] as well as several unproduced scripts.

After working as an editor at The San Francisco Examiner[7] for several years, as well as writing for The Nation, the Los Angeles Times[8] and other publications, he launched the news/activism website Workingforchange.com for Working Assets, then moved on to become the managing editor of the alternative news site, Alternet.[9] Currently, he teaches debate, mock trial, and journalism[10] at Skyline High School in Oakland, California. He is the advisor for Skyline's national award winning student newspaper The Oracle.

Scheer is the co-author, with his father Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq,[11] published in 2003 in the US, the United Kingdom and Australia. The book appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list and was a part of the national debate in 2004 about the then still popular Iraq War.[1] In 2010 he co-authored The Great American Stickup with his father, which also appeared on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list.[2] In 2016, he co-authored California Comeback: How a 'Failed State' Became a Model for the Nation with Narda Zacchino.[12]

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