Adjunct Faculty
Radio-Television Journalism
News and Sports Photographer and Live-Truck Operator

5550 Highway 63 South
Columbia, MO 65201

• Phone: 573-882-8888
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SCOTT SCHAEFER, BJ '04, is an Emmy award-winning photojournalist at KOMU-TV, the broadcast lab for the Missouri School of Journalism. He also serves as live-truck operator for KOMU and as adjunct faculty for the School.

His duties include shooting franchise pieces such as "Sarah's Stories," "Coverage from Callaway," and the "Follow-Up Files." Schaefer also shoots for "Friday Night Football" and "This Week in Mizzou Football," and has freelanced for NBC Sports.com, Bloomberg, FSN and Entertainment Tonight.

Schaefer assists students with all aspects of their reporting and helps them prepare stories for newscasts. He plays the piano and organ and has worked as organist for the St. Louis Cardinals. Schaefer's numerous awards for photography include two 2007 Mid-America Emmys, Five Regional Edward R. Murrow awards, the Society of Professional Journalists' National Sigma Delta Chi award for documentaries in television journalism and a 2009 National Edward R. Murrow award for feature reporting.