Willa Sandmeyer

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Willa Sandmeyer is an American television news reporter based in Los Angeles.

Sandmeyer grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended Walla Walla College, [1] graduating with a Bachelor degree of Arts in Journalism. [2] After starting her career at KNJO-FM in Thousand Oaks, California, [1] she worked for KEYT in Santa Barbara [3] and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. [4]

Sandmeyer joined KTLA in 1993,[ citation needed ] and her coverage included the wildfires in California. [5] She won an Emmy Award for her coverage of the Malibu fires that year [6] and helped the station win an Emmy for the live reporting of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. In 1999 Sandmeyer was one of a group involved in an age discrimination suit against KTLA. [7] She won another Emmy in 2004 for her contributions to KTLA morning news and won Associated Press Radio-Television awards in 2002 and 2005 as well as a Los Angeles Press Club Award. [2] She was laid off in 2008 as part of a round of staff cutbacks. [8]

In 2012, she joined radio station KCLU-FM as the voice of the station's local inserts during Morning Edition and was named morning anchor in 2015. [9]

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