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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#29: Willow Bay, Incoming Dean Of USC Communications & Journalism School

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Willow Bay is the first woman to ever be appointed Dean of the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism. She is also an accomplished TV journalist, digital news editor and author. Bay talks about her experience as a woman in media and what she sees for the future of journalism. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Follow Willow Bay on Twitter: @Willow_Bay Learn more about Willow Bay and the USC Annenberg School of Journalism: http://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/journalism/willow-bay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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And I said, well, last I checked, I'm the only one of your anchors who that has an MBA.

0:05.5

So I would argue that I'm uniquely equipped to do that show.

0:10.5

And they said, okay, but how can you do two shows?

0:12.9

And I said, because I'm a woman and you know that I will work twice as hard.

0:17.2

Welcome to No Limits.

0:20.0

I'm Rebecca Jarvis.

0:21.6

Each week we're talking to women playing at the top of their game.

0:25.6

So how are they doing it?

0:28.6

Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place.

0:35.6

Here with me today is a woman who's worked for almost every major news outlet, including ABC,

0:43.8

NBC, and CNN. She has an NBA from NYU's Stern School of Business, was the first woman

0:50.9

to co-anchor CNN's money line. She joined the Huffington Post early on in its infancy and was a senior editor there.

0:58.5

She's also an author and a distinguished voice in media.

1:01.7

And is now the first woman ever to be appointed dean of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.

1:08.7

Willow Bay?

1:09.5

Welcome to No Limits.

1:12.4

Thank you, Rebecca. Happy to be here.

1:17.8

I'm really excited to talk to you about, first of all, your new role, the first female dean of the U.S.C.

1:21.3

Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism. We're going to get to that in a minute.

1:33.8

And also fake news and everything that's going on in the world right now around journalism. But I want to talk to you about your path to all of this. And one thing I admire when I look at your story is the number of different places you could have gone, given your history. You started out in New York City. You modeled

1:40.5

17 Magazine and Estee Lauder. Yes. And you use that to pay, I read, for the University of Pennsylvania when you studied literature.

1:49.9

I did.

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