Mykal McEldowney

Mykal McEldowney is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award-winning photojournalist at The Indianapolis Star (IndyStar), part of the USA TODAY NETWORK.

Before his move to IndyStar, Mykal was a staff photojournalist at The Greenville News (SC) and served as the president of the South Carolina News Photographers Association and associate chair of the National Press Photographers Association’s Region 6.

He’s a 2007 graduate of Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication and was a member of Class XX at Eddie Adams Barnstorm Workshop.

Mykal’s photo and video work have been awarded by the White House Correspondents' Association Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, multiple National Headliner Awards, National Press Photographers Association’s Cliff Edom New America runner-up, Scripps Howard award for international and national investigations, NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame, Indiana SPJ, South Carolina News Photographers Association, South Carolina Press Association, Associated Press Sports Editors, Associated Press Media Editors, Society of Professional Journalists national, the Indiana News Photographers Association, and others.