Jessica Stugelmayer is a multiple award-winning journalist, producer and editor.
She earned a master’s degree in digital audience strategy from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2022.
Her work experience includes marketing copywriting and editing, website user experience and user interface design, and cross-platform integrated marketing for social media, email, radio, television, web and print. Her work has aired on national and local television and has been published in national and regional print publications and websites.
Her career began in western Montana, followed by a decade happily spent in Anchorage, Alaska. She now calls Bellingham, Washington home.
Currently
- senior manager of digital marketing // GCI
- digital audience and content strategy consultant
– freelance multimedia journalist
Formerly
– digital content director // KTVA 11 News, CBS affiliate
– senior digital content editor // Edible Alaska, website and print magazine focused on eating seasonally and locally in the 49th state
– director of marketing and promotions // Alaska Public Media, shared PBS and NPR affiliate
– web editor and multimedia journalist // KTVA 11 News, CBS affiliate
– contributing writer and restaurant critic // Anchorage Press
– drive-time news anchor // KBGA 89.9 FM
– general assignment reporter // Lake County Leader
Projects & Awards
Jessica and her digital team at KTVA were honored in 2019 with the Alaska Broadcasters Association's first-ever Best Use of Digital Platforms award. The following year the team was awarded a regional Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Social Media and later presented with the national Murrow award for Excellence in Social Media for a small television market.
Jessica was commissioned to produce a series of video interviews for the What Why How We Eat exhibit at the Anchorage Museum, which was on display from January 2019 to January 2020. The interviews, arranged and conducted in collaboration with writer Julia O'Malley, are also featured in O'Malley's book "The Whale & the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing and Community in Alaska."
In 2017, she produced the video series "Vietnam Echoes" to give voice to Alaskans' stories about the Vietnam War. The segments aired interstitially with Ken Burns' and Lynn Novick's "The Vietnam War" on Alaska Public Media TV. Several vignettes were selected to air in PBS's national pledge program "Stories from The Vietnam War," which aired across the country in spring 2018.
While at KTVA in 2016, she co-created a TV and web series called "Harvesting Alaska," which earned a James Beard Foundation award for Best Television Segment for 2017. She was also part of a team honored with a regional Edward R. Murrow award for Best News Documentary in a Small Television Market for work on the multi-part series, "Lullaby Project: Wings Over the Walls" for the TV program Frontiers.
She penned the food column The Hungry Chum for KTVA, which sought to introduce Alaskans to the diverse food available throughout the state and was part of the morning show Daybreak's recurring food segment, "Recipe Box."
She earned a master’s degree in digital audience strategy from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2022.
Her work experience includes marketing copywriting and editing, website user experience and user interface design, and cross-platform integrated marketing for social media, email, radio, television, web and print. Her work has aired on national and local television and has been published in national and regional print publications and websites.
Her career began in western Montana, followed by a decade happily spent in Anchorage, Alaska. She now calls Bellingham, Washington home.
Currently
- senior manager of digital marketing // GCI
- digital audience and content strategy consultant
– freelance multimedia journalist
Formerly
– digital content director // KTVA 11 News, CBS affiliate
– senior digital content editor // Edible Alaska, website and print magazine focused on eating seasonally and locally in the 49th state
– director of marketing and promotions // Alaska Public Media, shared PBS and NPR affiliate
– web editor and multimedia journalist // KTVA 11 News, CBS affiliate
– contributing writer and restaurant critic // Anchorage Press
– drive-time news anchor // KBGA 89.9 FM
– general assignment reporter // Lake County Leader
Projects & Awards
Jessica and her digital team at KTVA were honored in 2019 with the Alaska Broadcasters Association's first-ever Best Use of Digital Platforms award. The following year the team was awarded a regional Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Social Media and later presented with the national Murrow award for Excellence in Social Media for a small television market.
Jessica was commissioned to produce a series of video interviews for the What Why How We Eat exhibit at the Anchorage Museum, which was on display from January 2019 to January 2020. The interviews, arranged and conducted in collaboration with writer Julia O'Malley, are also featured in O'Malley's book "The Whale & the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing and Community in Alaska."
In 2017, she produced the video series "Vietnam Echoes" to give voice to Alaskans' stories about the Vietnam War. The segments aired interstitially with Ken Burns' and Lynn Novick's "The Vietnam War" on Alaska Public Media TV. Several vignettes were selected to air in PBS's national pledge program "Stories from The Vietnam War," which aired across the country in spring 2018.
While at KTVA in 2016, she co-created a TV and web series called "Harvesting Alaska," which earned a James Beard Foundation award for Best Television Segment for 2017. She was also part of a team honored with a regional Edward R. Murrow award for Best News Documentary in a Small Television Market for work on the multi-part series, "Lullaby Project: Wings Over the Walls" for the TV program Frontiers.
She penned the food column The Hungry Chum for KTVA, which sought to introduce Alaskans to the diverse food available throughout the state and was part of the morning show Daybreak's recurring food segment, "Recipe Box."
proud member of
Online News Association
Association of Food Journalists
International Association of Culinary Professionals
Alaska Press Club
American Copy Editors Society
Online News Association
Association of Food Journalists
International Association of Culinary Professionals
Alaska Press Club
American Copy Editors Society