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Mark Schoeff Jr. is a reporter at CQ Roll Call in Washington. He covers legislation and regulations affecting financial services.

Prior to joining CQ Roll Call in June 2024, Schoeff was a senior reporter for InvestmentNews, covering Washington for the publication’s audience of 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, writing about employment and labor law. He contributed to Howey Politics Indiana, a weekly political newsletter based in Indianapolis, from 1997 to 2023.

Schoeff’s other career experiences in Washington include 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. One of his jobs was serving as 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 of the National Press Club. He previously served in a number of officer positions and also as co-editor-in-chief 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.