Ed Schultz

Edward Andrew Schultz was born in Norfolk, Virginia on January 27, 1954. After graduating from Minnesota State University Moorhead, he became a radio sportscaster. A thirty-year veteran of broadcasting, he has won three Eric Sevareid Awards. He managed and was the lead talent for a broadcast team that won two Marconis and a Peabody Award. He was the host of the nationally syndicated progressive talk radio show The Ed Schultz Show, the MSNBC daily news program The Ed Show from 2009 to 2015, and the RT America show The News with Ed Schultz from 2015 to 2018. His book, Straight Talk from the Heartland, was published in 2004. He died on July 5, 2018 at the age of 64.