Joe Schoenmann

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Joe Schoenmann
Born Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
OccupationJournalist, author
NationalityAmerican
Genre Nonfiction
SubjectLas Vegas, Organized crime
Notable worksVegas Rag Doll: A True Story of Terror and Survival as a Mob Hitman's Wife
Website
vegasragdoll.com/author/

Joe Schoenmann (born in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin) is an American journalist and nonfiction author who has lived in Las Vegas since 1997.

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Education

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

Career

Schoenmann began his journalism 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 in Madison. [1] 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 . [2] 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 [3] by the Nevada Press Association, as well as four other awards in 2002 for his work at Las Vegas Weekly. [4]

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. [5]

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. [6] In 2014, his "Joe Downtown" columns in Las Vegas Weekly was awarded "Best Local Column" by the Nevada Press Association contest. [7]

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. [8]

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. [9] [10] 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." [11]

Tod Goldberg, in a critical review for Las Vegas CityLife , called the book "an unremorseful account of being married to a hitman." [12]

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  2. ↑ "KNPR, "Commentaries on KNPR"". Knpr.org. Archived from the original on 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  3. ↑ "Las Vegas Review-Journal, "R-J writers win state honors," September 27, 1998". Reviewjournal.com. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  4. ↑ "Las Vegas Review-Journal, "NPA Winners," September 22, 2002". Reviewjournal.com. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  5. ↑ "The Free Library, "Winners of 19th Annual CRMA Awards Announced," June 15, 2004". Thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  6. ↑ "2013 Better Newspaper Contest awards winners - Nevada Press Association". nevadapress.com. 18 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "2014 Better Newspaper Contest award winners - Nevada Press Association". nevadapress.com. 25 September 2015.
  8. ↑ "2017 Gabriel Winners". catholicacademy.org.
  9. ↑ "Book excerpt: Joe Schoenmann's 'Vegas Rag Doll'".
  10. ↑ "Guests, Coast to Coast AM, "Vegas Killers & Crooks," November 27, 2011". Coasttocoastam.com. 2011-11-27. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  11. ↑ "MyNews3, "I Married A Mob Hitman - Part 1," February 9, 2011". Mynews3.com. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  12. ↑ "Las Vegas CityLife, "Mob wife of Las Vegas," January 26, 2012". Archives.lasvegascitylife.com. 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
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