A native of San Francisco, California, Ken Verdoia joined the staff of KUED-TV in 1981 after serving in newspaper, radio and television reporting positions in Utah, California, and Colorado.

An honors graduate of San Jose State University in California, Ken has also studied at the University of Utah, Cambridge University in England, and the University of North Carolina.

The recipient of more than ninety regional, national and international awards for journalistic and broadcast excellence, Ken was selected in 1991 as Utah's Outstanding Young Professional in the field of Communications. In October of 1997 he was presented the Governor's Award by the Utah Humanities Council for outstanding career achievement in the field of humanities.

His documentaries have been broadcast nationally by the Public Broadcasting Service, and have also aired internationally. A multiple EMMY Award-winning producer, writer and reporter, Ken has been recognized for outstanding public service by more than a dozen national organizations. His first book, Utah: The Struggle for Statehood, is in its second printing through the University of Utah Press.

He has produced more than twenty public television documentaries, including his most recent works Joe Hill (Scheduled for national airing on PBS in September, 2000) and Glen Canyon (1999). His other nationally distributed PBS works include Thirty Years to Justice (1985), Topaz (1987), A Matter of Principle (1990), Frontier Code Blue (1992), The Atomic Stampede (1993), Utah: The Struggle for Statehood (1996), Brigham Young (1997), and The Frontier Photographers (1998).