Brian Shoenfelt

Brian Shoenfelt brings more than 20 years of combined experience training, managing and mentoring video journalists to his role in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. He previously worked for WTAJ starting in the engineering department as a broadcast technician. He later worked as a video journalist for more than ten years before becoming WTAJ's chief photographer for several years. For much of the same time, he also served as an instructor at Penn State Altoona, teaching film-video production.

An award-winning professional, Shoenfelt supports the students who produce the award-winning "Centre County Report," and other student productions and related endeavors at the Bellisario College.

In 2021, with the help of a small group of Bellisario students, he launched "After the Whistle," the Bellisario College's high school sports highlights show. At first a showcase for high school football in the fall, the show now covers a whole host of regional high school sports as well as Penn State sports throughout the academic year. Shoenfelt has since been made the faculty director of ATW. The show has gone on to place in several national awards competitions, and in 2025 the show won best sportscast in the Professional Keystone Media Awards competition, competing against professional outlets in Pennsylvania (excluding the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia markets).