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6 unusual facts about Mark Shields


Kate O'Beirne

O’Beirne was a regular contributor on CNN's Saturday night political roundtable program, The Capital Gang, along with Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Robert Novak, and Margaret Carlson.

Mark Shields

Over more than a decade, he helped manage state and local campaigns in some 38 states, including incumbent Boston, Massachusetts Mayor Kevin White's successful re-election campaign in 1975.

Since 1988, Shields has provided weekly political analysis and commentary for PBS's award-winning PBS NewsHour.

For 17 years, Shields was moderator and panelist on CNN's Capital Gang.

Paul Gigot

During the 1990s, he was a regular guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, appearing in the program's weekly political analysis segment, opposite Mark Shields, the regular liberal pundit.

Rowland Evans

Al Hunt and Mark Shields later joined the show as Evans scaled back his on-air work, and the title became Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields.



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