STACEY WOELFEL is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the news director for KOMU-TV, the University of Missouri-owned NBC affiliate for central Missouri. 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-elect 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 recently authored a chapter in Silenced: International Journalists Expose Media Censorship. He holds a doctorate in political science.