Stacey Woelfel
Stacey Woelfel is the news director for KOMU-TV, the University of Missouri-owned NBC affiliate for central Missouri and an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. The commercial station serves as the teaching laboratory for the Missouri School of Journalism. Students at KOMU-TV are the reporter, producers, writers, photographers, and editors of five daily newscasts that go head to head with competing newscasts in the market.
He is the national chairman of the Radio Television News Directors Association, is a member of the association's Executive Committee, and has served as the chair of the ethics committee, and a member of the convention planning and education committees. He also serves as a member of the board of governors of the Mid-America chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Woelfel is a winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, the Emmy, the Edward R. Murrow, and numerous regional and local awards. He is a frequent instructor in free media practices for journalists worldwide. Woelfel is the author of Suspicious Signs: Effects of Newscaster Scripts, Symbols, and Actions on Audience Perceptions of News Organization Bias and penned a chapter in Silenced: International Journalists Expose Media Censorship. He holds a doctorate in political science.