After graduating
magna cum laude from
Yale University, Mark Schoofs began his journalistic career in the 1990s with the
Chicago LGBT newspaper
Windy City Times. 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. A year later, he earned the
Pulitzer Prize for his "provocative and enlightening" reporting. He also has been awarded multiple science journalism awards from the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition to international reporting, Schoofs specialized in cultural essays, art and music reviews, and foreign correspondence from
Eastern Europe. His works appeared in
The New York Times Magazine,
The Washington Post,
Esquire,
the Advocate, The Paris
Courrier International, and other magazines. Schoofs was appointed professor of journalism at Yale in 2012. He has been a visiting professor at the
University of Southern California’s
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism since 2018. He continued to hold this position when he took over as chief editor of BuzzFeed News in the spring of 2020. BuzzFeed News established an internship program for his students, Schoofs also participated in the creation of the summer practice of the Beacon Project. ==References==