Steve Kraycik joined Penn State in 2012 after a 28-year career as a TV news manager and producer.

He spent a decade as a top-20 market News Director at TV stations in Sacramento and Seattle. He also worked in Tampa, Orlando, Providence, Concord NH and Allentown PA.

In 2012, Kraycik returned to Pennsylvania as Director of Student Television at Penn State. In this role, he teaches Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications students all aspects of TV news, and he supervises “Centre County Report,” a student-produced newscast that airs in 29 Pennsylvania counties. The Centre County Report student staff has won numerous awards, including two national college Emmys, multiple regional student Emmys, and awards from SPJ, BEA and the Associated Press. Centre County Report has been named the best college newscast in the nation four times (by the Society of Professional Journalists, Broadcast Education Association and the College Television Awards).