Joe Saltzman
University of Southern California - Annenberg Professor
Los Angeles
Joe Saltzman, professor of journalism and communication at USC Annenberg, has been a prolific print and electronic journalist for more than 50 years. He created the broadcasting sequence for the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California in 1974. Saltzman, who in August 2020 began his 53rd consecutive year of teaching at USC Annenberg, is the winner of several teaching awards, including the Scripps-Howard National Journalism and Mass Communications Professor of the Year and the USC Associates Teaching Excellence Award. He is currently the Director of the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC), a project of the Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg. Before coming to USC, Saltzman was a senior writer-producer for the CBS owned-and-operated stations based in Los Angeles. His documentaries and news specials have won more than 50 awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism (broadcasting’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), two Edward R. Murrow Awards for reporting, five Emmys and four Golden Mike awards.