Rebecca Haggerty is the associate director of Annenberg TV News and an award-winning broadcast and digital journalist.

Most recently she was co-executive producer of the daily news program “SoCal Connected” on public television station KCET, which won a 2013 Los Angeles-area Emmy for “Best Informational and Public Affairs Series.”  Prior to that, she was a producer and senior web editor for “Worldfocus,” a daily international news show on public television. She also served as a consulting editor on Manhattan local news startup “DNAinfo.com."

Haggerty spent ten years at NBC News as a producer at the newsmagazine “Dateline NBC” and has also produced and written documentaries for public and cable television. In 2001, she was a Knight International Press Fellow in Eastern Europe. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a doctorate in education at the University of Southern California.