Marta Waller

Marta Waller (born September 26, 1952)

Career Waller began her career in broadcast news in 1971 when she took a job as a production assistant at the KNBC Documentary Unit. Her desire to work on breaking news led her to acquire the skills she need to becoming a sound technician. Waller is one of the first women to be admitted to membership in IATSE #695,

She left KTLA in October 2008.

She is a founder and partner in K.I.S.S. Media Company a social media marketing business based in Los Angeles. In the spring of 2014, Waller moved to Paris, France, where she was a professor of International Marketing, Corporate Strategy and Communications Techniques at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense and ParisTech École des Ponts. The courses are offered to graduate students in the School of Business and Economics and taught in English. Students come from all over the world to receive a master's degree from these programs. In the late 1990s Marta developed and taught the "Delivering the News" course at UCLA Extension. She returned to Southern California after the birth of her third grandchild to spend time with family. Waller coaches young talent to develop their skills as broadcast reporters, anchors, writers and producers, capable of producing outstanding work on both breaking, short, and long-form investigative formats. In the Fall of 2021, she returned to Europe to continue teaching and coaching international students in Paris and London.

Awards Waller has been honored multiple times for her reporting, anchoring and community service by other groups and agencies. She won the Los Angeles Press Club Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and an Emmy Award for anchoring KTLA's coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. She also has several other Emmy Awards and Golden Mike Awards, including a Golden Mike Award for her gavel-to-gavel anchoring of the O. J. Simpson murder trial.

Personal life Waller is divorced. She has three daughters and three grandchildren.

Filmography Waller has played a reporter in several films and television shows. In the Heat of the Night episode: "Unfinished Business" (1991) Legalese (1998) Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)