About me

Michael Henninger is a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. After he was hired in February 2008, he immediately began an extensive story on the 2008 presidential campaign as it played out in Pennsylvania. After the election, the Post-Gazette sent him to Washington, D.C., to photograph President Barack Obama's inauguration and the surrounding events. He also was part of the paper's coverage of the Steelers' Super Bowl XLIII victory, photographing riots in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood after the game and the team's victory parade. He most recently photographed the events surrounding the tragic shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh Police officers.

Michael is a 2006 graduate of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania's journalism and Spanish programs. While at IUP, he worked as a part-time photographer for the Indiana Gazette. He also was the photographer for IUP's "Eastern Religions Come to Western Pennsylvania" exhibit. During the summer after his junior year, he interned at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and was asked to return the following summer for a second internship. After graduating, he moved to Pittsburgh and began freelancing for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Tribune-Review in Greensburg, the Valley News Dispatch, Pitt magazine and other clients. In 2007, Michael took a job as a contract freelancer for the Star-News, a New York Times regional newspaper, in Wilmington, N.C.

Michael's work has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Time magazine, the Toledo Blade, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pitt magazine, Wilmington magazine, the Wilmington Star-News, DOUBLEtruck magazine, the Indiana Gazette, the Valley News Dispatch, and in other outlets across the nation via the Associated Press.