She is also the Director of Video and Multimedia at USC’s converged media center, where she helps oversee news programming produced by students for broadcast, online and social media platforms. Haggerty began her career writing and editing documentaries for public and cable television, and then moved to NBC News, where she spent ten years as a producer for Dateline NBC. In that time, she produced specials, breaking news, and long-form stories. Her work at NBC was recongized with several journalism awards, including a national Emmy.