Mark Hoffman has been on staff at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 1992. Before coming to Milwaukee, he was a photo desk supervisor and picture editor at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press. He has been a photojournalist at the Bridgeport Post & Telegram (now the Connecticut Post), the La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune along with internships at Newsday and Detroit News. A recent major project was Dairyland in Distress, a look at the perils facing Wisconsin’s signature industry. He was the lead photojournalist for the companion PBS Frontline story. Stories he has covered include: The threat of zoonotic diseases with reporting in Brazil, Uganda and Kenya. The effect of the global dairy industry on Wisconsin with reporting in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Canada & Mexico. The plight of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Germany and a Milwaukee doctor’s mission to help them. The environmental effects of oil sanding mining in Alberta, Canada Other stories include the civil war in El Salvador; the ongoing struggle of grinding poverty and corruption in Haiti, and New York the day after the 9/11 attacks. In addition to the Olympics, he has covered nearly every major sporting event in the U.S. including Super Bowls, NBA Finals, NCAA national championships, US Open Golf & Tennis. He was part of a team that was honored for its digital environmental reporting in 2016 with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for A Watershed Moment: Great Lakes at a Crossroads.