Michael Schaffer

Executive Editor & Co-Host

Michael Schaffer is the executive editor of City Cast DC and a host of the City Cast DC podcast. A DC native, Mike has served as editor-in-chief of both Washington City Paper and Washingtonian magazine, and was a columnist at Politico. Mike lives in Chevy Chase D.C. with his wife, two daughters, and an ill-behaved dog. In his spare time, he makes fake covers for the old-fashioned big-city tabloid that Washington never had.