Willa Seidenberg

Willa Seidenberg was a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years before she came to the University of Southern California at the beginning of 2000. She entered as a faculty advisor for Annenberg TV News, USC's television news operation. She is now faculty advisor and director of Annenberg Radio News. Seidenberg started her news career as a public radio reporter, anchor and producer, with stints at WYSO-FM, WBUR-FM and WGBH-FM. She covered the landmark Woburn Toxic Waste Trial in Boston, and she contributed stories to National Public Radio. She began writing television news in 1987 at WBZ-TV in Boston, and she later moved to KCAL-TV in Los Angeles. She is the co-author of the oral history/photo project: A Matter of Conscience: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War (published in 1992), which she produced with photographer William Short. A Matter of Conscience continues to be exhibited nationally, along with Seidenberg and Short's second oral history/photo project called Memories of the American War: Stories From Viet Nam.