Mark Schoofs
Mark Schoofs is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News. He is also a visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
He was formerly senior editor at ProPublica from 2011 to 2013, an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal for over a decade, and head of the investigative reporting division at BuzzFeed News. He previously wrote for The Village Voice, where he won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for an eight-part series on AIDS in Africa. Schoofs graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1985 with a degree in Philosophy, and has taught journalism at Yale. He has been awarded multiple Science Journalism Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
