Shub attended Townsend Harris High School and then joined the Navy in 1945. He graduated from the City College of New York and attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
In 1964, he was hired by the Washington Post to open a bureau in Bonn and report on Germany and Eastern Europe. Next, he was moved to the Moscow bureau where his reporting on dissidents and the political role of the army got him expelled in 1969. More recently, Shub was news director at Radio Free Europe and analyst for the United States Information Agency, studying Russian public opinion.
Shub died of a stroke and pneumonia on July 2, 2006.
