Shane Greer

Shane Greer is a leading political commentator, writer and Chief Executive of Biteback Media, Total Politics and Campaigns & Elections magazine.

Shane launched Total Politics in 2008 with its publisher with Iain Dale, and has since helped establish it as one of the UK’s top political magazines.

In 2010 he assumed the role of Managing Director of the leading publishing group Biteback Media, the company which also owns Total Politics magazine.

Shane appears regularly on television and radio, including Sky News, BBC News, Daily Politics, BBC Breakfast, BBC World Service, Channel 4 News, More 4 News, Al Jazeera and BBC Radio and is a paper reviewer for both Sky and the BBC.

His first foray into politics was as the Executive Director of the Young Britons’ Foundation and as a lead presenter on the world’s first political internet television channel 18 Doughty Street. Shane is originally from Northern Ireland, but has since set up his home in London after spending time in Glasgow, the North West of England and Washington DC in the USA.

Shane has written for or Total Politics, has blogged for the Daily Telegraph and Centre for Political Studies, was an online columnist for Sky News during the 2008 US presidential election and writes for the Yorkshire Post.

Shane had two books published by Biteback in 2010, the first of which, Why Vote Conservative, made the case for voting Conservative at the general election that year.  The second, So You Want to be a Politician, is an essential read for first time candidates, sitting politicians, anyone intending to run an effective campaign and anyone interested in the art and science of political campaigning.

Shane’s deep understanding of politics and political campaigning was recognised by leading US magazine Campaigns and Elections which has invited him onto the judging panel for the Reed Awards; the American awards recognising campaigning excellence across the spectrum of political campaigns.

Shane is co-owner of Campaigns & Elections ‘preeminent “how-to” resource for politics, focused on the tools, tactics and techniques of the political consulting profession’.

“Shane Greer is not only an accomplished blogger, but also an astute political analyst and excellent TV pundit. He is a regular on Sky News, featuring prominently on our Sky.com programme and frequently reviewing the newspapers with wit and aplomb.”
Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent, Sky News

Shane Greer is based in Washington DC.