Robert Scheer

During Robert Scheer's 30-year career as a photojournalist in California and Indianapolis, he covered major sports like the Super Bowl, the Olympics in Athens, WNBA and NBA finals, and numerous basketball Final Fours. Long an advocate for both newsroom stills and video, he's taught at the college level, judged various contests including Hearst and POYi, and has won numerous awards including the Missouri Journalism Medal for work on an IndyStar project that broke the USA Gymnastics & Larry Nassar pedophilia scandal, and a 2022 Emmy for video work about the cycle of deaths inside county-run jails in Indiana. Scheer conceived-of and helped launch the 317 Project, a multi-year newsroom initiative at IndyStar that tells small slice-of-life stories in Indianapolis, one micro-neighborhood at a time. The series is ongoing. In early 2024 he transitioned into management and is the Deputy Managing Editor for Visuals at The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C.