While in college, Shaw began his journalism career as a police reporter for the
Constitution-Press in Lawton. He has also been credited with breaking the news that President
Richard Nixon was going to resign. In 1988, he joined
Newsday as their Washington bureau chief, where he oversaw a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the
Persian Gulf War in 1991. In 1997, he was part of a large team of reporters that won another Pulitzer Prize for a story about the crash of
TWA Flight 800, for spot news reporting. He retired in 2002. ==Death==