Geoff Schumacher (born November 11, 1965) is a journalist and author who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
[citation needed] He graduated from Pahrump Valley High School[2] in 1984, and received his bachelor's degree in journalism in 1988 from the University of Nevada, Reno.
[4] After graduation, Schumacher worked as a reporter and then as city editor at Las Vegas Sun.
He then worked for three years as managing editor of Las Vegas CityLife, an alternative newsweekly.
In 2000, he went to work for Stephens Media, where he launched the now-defunct Las Vegas Mercury, an alt-weekly, which published for four years until it folded after Stephens Media bought rival Las Vegas CityLife.