Michael Clubb

Michael Clubb has been the sole staff photojournalist at the South Bend Tribune in South Bend, Indiana, since 2024.

Michael has also worked as a freelancer for a number of outlets, including The Associated Press, the Louisville Courier Journal, NASCAR and several university athletics programs. His work has been featured in ESPN, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Athletic, The Associated Press and the New York Post.

While he has shot news and features, such as cleanup efforts after Hurricane Helene in 2024 and the ongoing development of and push against data centers in the Midwest, Michael especially enjoys photographing sports. He has photographed a number of large-scale sporting events, including Kentucky Derbies, multiple college football bowl games, NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and the Indianapolis 500. Additionally, he has covered many professional sports, including MLB, NHL, MLS, PGA, XFL, NASCAR and IndyCar.

Michael’s work has gained state, national and international recognition. Most notably, his sports action photo placed first in the Associated Press Sports Editors contest in 2025, and he won first place awards at the 2025 Indiana Society of Professional Journalists awards for his sports and news photography. Michael was also named the 2020 Kentucky News Photographers Association Sports Photographer of the Year.

Outside of work, Michael helps run a simulated racing endurance team competing in real time six-, eight-, 12- and 24-hour long virtual sportscar races. He is also an avid gamer, kayaker, griller, all around tech nerd and cat dad to Beans and Pebbles.