About Stacey Woelfel

Stacey Woelfel is the director of aerial journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. In this role, he oversees the institute’s four-drone fleet, teaches a drone-flying class and works with interested Missouri journalism students who want to get their FAA licenses to become drone pilots. He also writes about drone issues for RJI’s website, as well as other industry new sites and advocates for journalists’ use of drones on the state and national levels.

Woelfel is also director of the the Jonathan Murray Center for Documentary Journalism and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Prior to that he served as the news director of KOMU-TV, the NBC affiliate at the University of Missouri. During his tenure at KOMU-TV, he was a 2013-14 RJI Fellow, where he explored how newscasts can take advantage of second-screen viewing.

Woelfel has previously held the position of national chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).

He received a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1981. Before returning to the University of Missouri in 1986, he worked as a photographer and assignment editor at WESH-TV, the NBC-affiliate station in Orlando, Florida.

Woelfel enjoys tinkering with computers and traveling with his wife, Rebecca, in his free time. The couple has two adult children who are both pursuing careers in the movie and television business.

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