Director

Joe Saltzman

Directing

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 2866402

IMDb ID: nm8812031

Known for: Directing

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1968 - 2016

Years active: 49

Average TMDB rating: 8.24

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Biography

Joe Saltzman is a professor of journalism and communication at USC Annenberg and an expert in the image of the journalist in popular culture. Saltzman received his B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California and his M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After working for several years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Saltzman joined CBS television in Los Angeles in 1964 and for the next ten years produced documentaries, news magazine shows, and daily news shows, winning more than fifty awards including the Columbia University-duPont broadcast journalism award (the broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), four Emmys, four Golden Mikes, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Silver Gavel, and one of the first NAACP Image awards.

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