Mark Schoofs is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
12 Facts About Mark Schoofs
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Mark Schoofs is a visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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In 1999, Schoofs spent more than six months on an assignment for The Village Voice in African countries writing an eight-part series of articles on AIDS.
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Mark Schoofs has been awarded multiple science journalism awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Mark Schoofs's works appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Esquire, the Advocate, The Paris Courrier International, and other magazines.
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Later on, Mark Schoofs worked at ProPublica as an editor of a team of investigative reporters.
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In 2014, Mark Schoofs joined BuzzFeed News, where he founded an investigative reporting unit.
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Mark Schoofs announced in March 2022 that he would resign from BuzzFeed News as editor-in-chief after more cuts to the newsroom were announced.
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Mark Schoofs was appointed professor of journalism at Yale in 2012.
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Mark Schoofs has been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism since 2018.
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Mark Schoofs continued to hold this position when he took over as chief editor of BuzzFeed News in the spring of 2020.
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BuzzFeed News established an internship program for his students, Mark Schoofs participated in the creation of the summer practice of the Beacon Project.