Mark Schoeff Jr. is the financial services and financial technology reporter at CQ Roll Call. He joined the publication in June 2024.
Previously, Schoeff was a reporter at InvestmentNews for nearly 14 years, covering legislation and regulations affecting retail investment advisors and brokers. He won an award in 2022 from Editor & Publisher magazine for his column, D.C. Insider.
Prior to joining InvestmentNews in April 2010, Schoeff served for nearly five years as the Washington correspondent for Workforce Management, a former Crain Communications publication. He wrote about employment and labor law. He also contributed regularly to Howey Politics Indiana, a weekly political newsletter based in Indianapolis, from 1997 through 2022.
Schoeff’s other career experiences in Washington included serving as director of external relations at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and as press secretary for former Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana.
After growing up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, he began his career in New York City, where one of his jobs was managing editor of a community paper in Manhattan. He wrote for the sports desk of the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel during high school and college.
Schoeff is president-elect of the National Press Club. He also is co-chair of the Club’s Publications Team and serves as an editor of The Wire, the Club’s electronic newsletter.
Schoeff earned his undergraduate degree from Purdue University, where he was a reporter and editor on the daily campus newspaper, The Purdue Exponent. He has a master’s degree from George Mason University.
