In addition to traditional and data journalism, Matthew Schroyer is developing drone technology and small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAV) for use in journalistic enterprises. To this end, he has founded the Professional Society of Drone Journalists (PSDJ), located at DroneJournalism.org.
He's written for newspapers, alternative newsweeklies and news websites about presidential campaigns, energy, pollution, local politics, public housing, poverty, musicians, school board meetings and assorted slices of life.
He holds a master's in journalism University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was a contributor to CU-CitizenAccess.org, a community news website, and a data journalist for the McCormick Foundation-funded Investigative Journalism Education Consortium (IJEC). While a graduate student, he taught journalism and contributed to CampusCrime.net, an interactive web site using data journalism practices to report on crime at the U of I, which won an Mark of Excellence award from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
Full-time, he now works on a National Science Foundation grant at the University of Illinois called EnLiST, which offers unique leadership training and professional development for science teachers from grades K-12. There, he performs a variety of duties as a communications specialist and social network analyst. He also is developing the newly-founded “Drones for Schools” program, which teaches high school students the core science and engineering concepts associated with drone technology, which uses the same technology behind the drones of DroneJournalism.org.
He is available as a consultant to teach news organizations how to adopt data journalism strategies and utilize drones for low-cost, high-impact investigative reporting. Resume and references are available on request.
email: mschroyer@gmail.com
twitter: @matthew_ryan
AWARDS
- Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence, Online News Reporting, National Winner, 2010
- Illinois College Press Association, second-place award for in-depth reporting, 2008
- St. Louis Newspaper Guild Award, 2008
- St. Louis Press Club Award, 2007
SEMESTERS RANKED EXCELLENT TEACHER BY STUDENTS
- Fall 2010: JOUR200, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
CONFERENCES
- Abd-El-Khalick, F., Haythornthwaite, C., Martin, A., Schroyer, M., & Phelps, K. (2012). Characterizing district-wide teachers’ science learning networks: silos and barriers to change and innovation. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Indianapolis, IN.
- Abd-El-Khalick, F., Frericks, C., Haythornthwaite, C., Schroyer, M., Price, R., Martin, A., & Bergandine, D. (2012). Understanding Barriers to Change and Innovation in STEM Teaching and Learning: Silos and District-wide Teacher Learning Networks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership. Washington, D.C.
