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Biography: David Schaper

David Schaper is based in NPR’s Chicago bureau and brings more then fifteen years of experience in radio news to NPR. David Schaper was born and raised in the Chicago western suburbs. He then attended The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to gain his Bachelors Degree. Later on he attended The University of Illinois-Springfield to obtain his Masters Degree.

Since starting his career at Wisconsin Public Radio’s WLSU-FM, Schaper found himself in Chicago as a writer and editor for the WBBM-AM, and a reporter and anchor for the WXRT-FM. He also found time to work for local commercial stations, WMAY-AM, WIZM-AM, and WSSU-FM. Working for all of these prestiges Public Radio stations, he gained much needed experience to pursue his life long dream and goal to become a top journalist in the reporting and editing field of journalism.

Before working for NPR, Schaper spent nine years working for Chicago’s Public Radio’s WBEZ-FM. When he was employed there, Schaper was an award winning reporter and editor. For three years he covered the education problems, financial and other wise, huge problems in Chicago public schools. In 1996 Schaper was promoted to assistant news editor, with this new promotion he still continued to report and uncover breaking news, politics, transportation, housing, sports, and business news as well as doing his assistant news editor job. When Schaper left WBEZ-FM, he was the stations politic reporter, editor, and frequent fill in for anchors and program hosts. He would also go on to the public television’s Chicago Tonight and Chicago Week in Review as a guest.

At his current job at NPR, Chicago bureau, David Schaper covers breaking news in Chicago and around the Midwest, and a broad range of important social, cultural, political, and business issues in the region. If you would like to listen to his articles and reports, they can be heard on NPR’s Morning Edition, and All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.

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