Joe Schoenmann
Host/Senior ProducerJoe Schoenmann joined Nevada Public Radio in 2014. He works with a talented team of producers at State of Nevada who explore the casino industry, sports, politics, public health and everything in between.
Prior to joining KNPR, he worked in newspapers and magazines in Wisconsin, then in Nevada at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Life magazine. He’s won awards for investigative reporting, feature writing and deadline reporting, and has written a little-known book looking at a Vegas hitman and his son through the eyes of the son’s mother.
A Midwest native, Joe graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After a stint as a janitor, he turned to journalism. A Las Vegas resident since 1997, he spends his free time with friends, writing unproduced scripts, and observing life’s rich pageant.
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Most of Las Vegas and much of the country remembers what happened on Oct. 1, 2017. With 60 victims and some 800 injured, that shooting on the Las Vegas Strip was the worst modern-day shooting in the country’s history. -
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There is a lot going on in Nevada right now. The legislature is meeting, as it does every two years for four months. -
How I learned to let go of fear and trust my only child with a second father figure -
It’s been two months since Carolyn Goodman left her job as mayor of Las Vegas. That’s given her enough time to reflect and assess the changes that 12 years have brought about in the city and for her. -
You might not think much about data centers, but they’re a pervasive part of your life. -
It’s the time of year when people don’t want to do it, but it’s the law: you need to file your tax return. -
It's been a busy January. -
Doesn’t it seem that no matter how much effort, talk or enforcement is put into reducing traffic deaths, nothing works in Southern Nevada? -
"Desert Treasures: Behind the Scenes of Antiques Roadshow" is Vegas PBS' peek behind the curtain of when the storied series came to Las Vegas.
