Judy Muller, an Emmy Award-winning ABC News correspondent and National Public Radio commentator, joined the faculty of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in August 2003 as an assistant professor of journalism. She remains a contributing correspondent to ABC News broadcasts, including “Nightline and “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.” Muller, who went to work for ABC News in 1990, covered the 1992 Rodney King trial and ensuing riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, among other stories. As part of a “Nightline” team, she received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and an Emmy Award for coverage of the Simpson case. A regular contributor to NPR’s “Morning Edition,” she also wrote a book about her experiences as a journalist titled, Now this… Radio, Television and the Real World. Before joining the ABC News team, Muller was a CBS News correspondent who contributed to “CBS News Sunday Morning” and the “CBS Weekend News.”
