Biography
Jeff L. Wald is News Director at KTLA-TV Los Angeles, a Tribune Broadcasting station. This is Wald's second time as news director at KTLA where he has successfully positioned KTLA's "News at Ten" and "The KTLA Morning News" as #1 in Southern California. He previously served in the position from December 1981 to March 1990, generating five Emmy Awards for the station's news coverage and broadcasts. He also produced the nightly current events debate program "Talkback" for the station earlier in his career. Wald returned to KTLA from Broadcast News Consultants (a division of Intercomcon LLC) where, as a partner, he worked with television stations across the country designing start-up news operations, expanding news programming and positioning network affiliation changes.
From 1990 to 1995, Wald was Executive Director of News Programming at KCOP, Los Angeles, where he planned and created a state-of-the-art electronic news gathering facility and implemented a new news format. While at KCOP, he garnered Emmys for "News-13 at Ten," and the news special, "Flashpoint," a documentary on the 1992 L.A. riots.
Since 1986, Wald has served as a Senior Instructor at UCLA, creating and teaching two college level courses. He has also taught a graduate level course on television news at the University of Southern California.
Wald was a news talent agent at Media People in Beverly Hills, and worked as a news consultant at Frank N. Magid Associates in Marion, Iowa and San Francisco. He was assignment editor at KNXT from 1973-78, (now KCBS-TV) as well as KTTV here in Los Angeles. At KNXT he was part of the team that brought the SLA shootout live to Los Angeles viewers.
Jeff Wald has received many awards from his peers including eight local Emmy Awards and 18 Golden Mike Awards. Most recently, Wald was recognized by the Greater Los Angeles Press Club for two First Place awards (2002) for Regularly Scheduled Newscast, "KTLA Morning News First Edition" and "KTLA News at Ten". His latest Emmy was for Best Regularly Scheduled Daily News, "KTLA News First Edition" (2001) and recent Golden Mike honors were for Best News Broadcast, "KTLA Morning News" (2001) and "KTLA News at Ten" (2000), beating out all competition in Southern California. He also received two prestigious 2001 APTRA (Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California & Nevada) Awards for Best Television Newscast, Class One, "KTLA Morning News" and Best Television Live Coverage of a News Event for KTLA's coverage of a tragic hotel fire in Hollywood. He also received RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Regional Awards for Best Newscast (2001) and Best Live Coverage of the Lakers Riot after the team won the NBA championship (1999). Two Golden Mikes (1999) were for Best Live Coverage and Best News Special. In 2002, Wald received a Los Angeles Press Club Award for Best Regularly Scheduled Daily News Program for "News at Ten's" coverage of the disastrous events of September 11, 2001. For five consecutive years (1983 to 1987), Wald received the Golden Mike Award for Best News Coverage for "KTLA News at Ten". Other Emmy and/or Golden Mike Awards are for Wald's work in covering important stories such as the Reginald Denny beating and First Interstate Bank fire, among others. He won his first Emmy in 1982 for Best News Broadcast, "KTLA News at Ten." In 1985 and 1986, Wald received special Golden Mike Awards for his two terms as president of the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California. He has also served on the national board of the Radio and Television News Directors Association and the Los Angeles Press Club.
Jeff Wald is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a
Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications.
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