Joe Schoenmann (born in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin) is an American

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and nonfiction

author In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work that has been published, whether that work exists in written, graphic, visual, or recorded form. The act of creating such a work is referred to as authorship. Therefore, a sculpt ...

who has lived in

Las Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...

since 1997.

Education

Schoenmann graduated from River Valley High School in Spring Green, Wisconsin. He went on to graduate from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

Career

Schoenmann began his

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

career as a reporter at the ''Elroy Tribune-Keystone'', a community weekly, taking his first daily newspaper job at the ''West Bend Daily News'' before moving to the ''

Capital Times ''The Capital Times'' (or ''Cap Times'') is a weekly newspaper published Wednesday in Madison, Wisconsin, by The Capital Times Company. The company also owns 50 percent of Capital Newspapers, which now does business as Madison Media Partners. ...

'' in Madison. In 1997, he worked as a reporter at the '' Las Vegas Review-Journal''. He went on to work as a writer, then as managing editor, for '' Las Vegas Weekly'', and, most recently, as a reporter at the '' Las Vegas Sun''. In 2014, he became the senior producer of Nevada Public Radio's morning program, "KNPR's State of Nevada" at knpr.org . He is now the News Director and host of morning talk show.

Awards

He was given the Outstanding Journalist award in 2002 and Story of the Year in 1998 by the Nevada Press Association, as well as four other awards in 2002 for his work at ''Las Vegas Weekly''. In 2004, he was the gold medal winner for Profile Writing in the 19th annual City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA) awards competition for an article about an outcall service operator in ''Las Vegas Life'' magazine. In 2013, his article about the Clark County Coroner's Office in the ''Las Vegas Sun'' won Best Feature in the Nevada Press Association contest. In 2014, his "Joe Downtown" columns in ''Las Vegas Weekly'' was awarded "Best Local Column" by the Nevada Press Association contest. As a host of Nevada Public Radio's State of Nevada program titled "Tunnel Deaths" that Schoenmann produced and for which he interviewed a homeless man won a 2017 Gabriel Award, the second in Nevada Public Radio's history.

Book

The nonfiction book ''Vegas Rag Doll: A True Story of Terror and Survival as a Mob Hitman's Wife'', co-authored by Schoenmann with Wendy Mazaros and released in fall 2011, is an autobiography of Mazaros' marriage to Tom Hanley, 39 years her senior, who was involved in organized crime in Las Vegas. MyNews 3 wrote, in a story about the book, "She is Wendy Mazaros, a woman so connected to the mob and so well known that in the 1970s the newspapers simply referred to her as Wendy." Tod Goldberg, in a critical review for '' Las Vegas CityLife'', called the book "an unremorseful account of being married to a hitman."

References

External links

Publisher's book page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schoenmann, Joe Living people American male journalists Writers from Nevada University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Writers from the Las Vegas Valley Writers from Madison, Wisconsin People from Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin Year of birth missing (living people)