Larry Stuelpnagel is an Assistant Professor at Medill and a College Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. He joined Medill and Northwestern in 1995 after a 25-year career in broadcast journalism.

From 1972 to 1980, he climbed the professional ladder at KHSL-TV in Chico, California, serving as a reporter, anchor and news director. As news director, he took the station to first place in the ratings.

In 1980, he moved east and joined WNJN in New Jersey and WNET in New York, primarily as a political reporter for their jointly produced newscast, New Jersey Network News. His reporting and documentary work earned two Emmy's, two Deadline Club Awards from the New York City Chapter of SPJ/SDX, two Silver Medals from the New York International Film & Video Festival, a CINE Golden Eagle, and other honors.

At Northwestern Larry teaches broadcast and multi-platform reporting at Medill, and courses on politics and the press in Political Science and the American Studies program. In 1998, his graduate broadcast journalism class produced Medill's first Web cast with live election coverage. In 2004, he co-authored a study of Asian Americans in news management for the Asian American Journalists Association. The results were presented at the UNITY Journalists of Color Convention in Washington, D.C. He helped design the news content portion of the Knight Study, The Local TV News Experience, in 2006/07. In spring 2007, Larry was honored for his teaching when he was voted one of Northwestern's outstanding faculty members by Medill students.

He has a B.A. and M.A. in Communication Studies with an emphasis in broadcast journalism from California State University, Chico. He and his wife Betsy Erkkila and daughter Suli live in Wilmette, Illinois.