Brittany Shepherd
Brittany Shepherd is a national political reporter at ABC News, where she covers campaigns, politics, and how the Internet age has changed it all. Her work focuses on profiling the characters that animate the newscycle and storylines that often fall under the radar. Brittany has spent nearly a decade covering politics and embracing new media as a key part of storytelling along the way.
Before landing at ABC News, Brittany was a White House and National Correspondent at Yahoo! News, where she hosted the young-voter centric web show, 'Hot Mic.' There, she co-moderated one of the few on-camera interviews of then-presumptive nominee Joe Biden alongside chef and philanthropist José Andres, all while traveling the country writing pieces documenting the unprecedented presidential campaign during the coronavirus pandemic.
Additionally, Brittany co-hosted the MAKERS Primary Conference in Los Angeles alongside veteran journalists Katie Couric and HuffPost Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen. In 2020, she was a member of the International Women's Media Foundation Election Cohort.
She got her start in D.C. journalism covering the Trump administration as a White House reporter at start-up newsroom The Independent Journal Review and after that, as a staff writer at Washingtonian magazine.
Prior to joining ABC News, Brittany was a regular political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and SiriusXM. Now, you can find her work across ABC News platforms, including streaming, radio, podcast, TikTok, digital, FiveThirtyEight, and more.
Outside of work hours, Brittany can often be found talking about her favorite TV show, Frasier, updating her Letterboxd profile, or fine tuning her Spotify playlists. She is forever on the hunt for a slice of pizza in Washington as good as she can get from her native Long Island.
Brittany was born and raised in New York and received her journalism degree at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.