Andy Ludlum

andy ludlum Andy Ludlum Andy Ludlum is the Director of News Programming at KFWB NEWS TALK 980 (KFWB Asset Trust) and KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO (CBS Radio).

He’s spent over 35 years in news and information broadcasting on radio and television.

Andy started in radio in the 1970’s as a traffic reporter in San Jose, CA. Over the years, he’s been an editor, news reporter and anchor and has worked in some great cities; San Jose, Seattle, Kansas City and since 1995, Los Angeles.

Andy’s had the opportunity to broadcast from all over the world and cover some exceptional events, from the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat in Egypt, to the economic emergence of China and the rebirth of democracy in the former Soviet Union. While working in Washington State he covered the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens.

He’s spent most of the last 25 years programming all-news or news, talk and sports radio stations. Andy’s stations have frequently been recognized for excellence in news broadcasting receiving three national RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence, local Emmys and Golden Mikes from the Radio Television News Association of Southern California.

Andy and his wife Rodi live in Ventura County where he volunteers in emergency radio communications. They have two grown daughters and one grandson.

Follow Andy: @aludlum

keith long

News staff,

I am the author of a piece posted on the Harvard Journalism School website reviewing the media coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, a top news story of 2011 {based on Bing search engine stats} . I would like to invite the entire news dept. to read this piece. I know we all share an interest in the performance standards of our media. The link is at

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00540

What if the Casey Anthony jury hadn’t been sequestered?
ASK THIS | November 27, 2011

The court of public opinion, shaped by sensational, damning press accounts, found this Florida woman to be a horrid person, guilty as charged in her two-year-old daughter’s death. The jury, sequestered and not subject to the vicious coverage, found her not guilty. Writer Keith Long thinks the jury got it right, and says justice was done despite the media’s accounts.