Shaun Waterman

Shaun Waterman is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the BBC, United Press International, Newsweek and POLITICO, and an expert on cybersecurity, technology and emerging threats 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 10 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 counter-terrorism efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security from its standup in 2003. That year he became the first reporter for the national media to write about the possibility of a cyberattack on the U.S. electric grid. 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 2010-2013, he wrote about intelligence, national security and emerging cyber conflicts as a staff reporter for The Washington Times -- earning a second "Dateline Washington" award.

Since being recruited by POLITICO in 2014 to launch their Pro Morning Cybersecurity news service, Shaun has largely worked and freelanced for the defense and federal IT trade press.

Prior to joining UPI, Shaun worked as a community organizer, a reporter for the investigative magazine Private Eye and as a senior producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1999, he was appointed to run the BBC’s American radio news desk in Washington.