He previously wrote for The Washington Post, covering the White House and Congress.
[citation needed] Scherer started his career as a reporter at Mother Jones before he was made Washington correspondent for Salon.
He was recruited to join TIME in 2007 and was the magazine’s White House correspondent until he was promoted to Washington bureau chief in 2009.
[5] Scherer won the National Press Club’s Lee Walczak Award for Political Excellence in 2012 for his work covering the Obama re-election campaign.
[6][7] In 2014, Scherer won the New York Press Club Award for Political Coverage for a cover story on the US government shutdown in 2013.