Michael Schennum

Mike Schennum is a photojournalist with The Arizona Republic.[1] His face appeared on a 2012 Time magazine cover montage for a story about Latino voters, despite the fact that Schennum has one parent who is of Chinese descent, and one parent who is of Irish and Norwegian descent.[2][3]

Education

Schennum earned a B.A. in art from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000.[4] He also took photojournalism courses at San Francisco State University. His first Intro to Photography class sparked his interest in photojournalism.[5]

Career

Schennum has been working in professional photojournalism for eight years. He works as a staff photographer for The Arizona Republic. Prior to working here, he was an intern at the Appleton Post-Crescent and the Palo Alto Daily News. He also taught courses in photojournalism at Arizona State University. He has done freelance work for a number of magazines and newspapers across the US.

Organizations

Schennum is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. He was also on the board of the local Arizona chapter for seven years.

Awards and honors

In 2005 he won the Sports Illustrated Assignment award.[5]

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gollark: All widely deployed software is inevitably awful, as they say.
gollark: Also that the entire phone hardware/software stack is a horrifying inconsistent mess.
gollark: It's very annoying that the high-performance phone SoCs which exist have terrible IO and/or aren't sold to the SBC-making companies.
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References
  1. "Plea deal springs Arizona man, Bill Macumber, jailed 37 years in double murder amid concerns his wife framed him during a bitter divorce".
  2. "Asian-American on TIME's Latino cover".
  3. "'Time' apologizes for photo used on Latino-themed cover".
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2012-11-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "AAPI Heritage Month: Michael Schennum". Asian American Journalists Association. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.



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