|  Av Westin is a 52-year veteran of the news business. He is the former Senior Vice President of ABC News and served as a producer for the ABC Evening News, 20/20 and many other news programs and documentaries. During his tenure with ABC and CBS, he won six Emmy awards, four Peabodys, and numerous other awards for his leadership in the field. He is now Executive Director of the National Television Academy Foundation.
Mr. Westin is the author of four books: National Citizenship Test (Bantam Books), Heroes and Heroin (Bantam Books), Newswatch: How TV Decides the News (Simon & Schuster), and Best Practices for Television Journalists (The Freedom Forum). He also authored “The Color of Ratings,” for Brill’s Content and “You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught” for Nieman Reports.
Mr. Westin has been visiting professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University, and Arizona State University, as well as a guest lecturer at Fordham University, New York University, Emerson College, and Columbia College in Chicago. He also serves on the board of CUNY-TV.
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