Deborah Amos

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Deborah Amos is an American journalist. Until 2023, she was an international correspondent for NPR, where she focused on the Middle East. [1]

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Career

Amos attended the University of Florida, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. [2] Her first job in the journalism field was for ABC Orlando, where she was hired as a TV news reporter. [3]

Amos first gained attention in the journalism world for producing the NPR radio documentary Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown . [4] [5] After producing several radio documentaries, she became a foreign war correspondent in 1982. [5] During the 1980s she worked in both Iraq and Syria. [6] In 1989 she covered Poland's first democratic election, the Tiananmen Square protests, [6] and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. [1]

Amos turned to television journalism in 1993, and went on to report for the ABC programs Nightline , Turning Point, and World News Tonight , and for several PBS programs for the next decade. [5] [7]

Amos is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University. [8] She was previously the James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2013 and 2015. [2] In 2016 she was named vice president of the Overseas Press Club of America. [3]

In the 2020s, Amos has focused her reporting on covering refugee issues. [5]

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Recognition

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Profiles at Bard College Berlin". Bard College Berlin. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  3. 1 2 Anderton, Trish (2016-11-08). "Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Deborah Amos". OPC. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  4. ↑ "Tape discovery led to radio documentary on Jonestown". The Day. Associated Press. 1981-04-20.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Deborah Amos". International Women's Media Foundation . Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  6. 1 2 Amos, Deborah (2019-06-04). "'Bearing Witness Is Really All We Have': Memories Of Covering The Tiananmen Aftermath". NPR. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
  7. ↑ "Losers live on". Star-News. 1993-12-17.
  8. ↑ "Deborah Amos". Princeton University Journalism. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  9. ↑ Palmer, Michael A. (July 1993). "Book Review: Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World". Armed Forces & Society. 19 (4): 632–633. doi:10.1177/0095327X9301900412. ISSN   0095-327X.
  10. ↑ Quandt, William B. (1992-12-01). "Lines In The Sand: Desert Storm And The Remaking Of The Arab World". Foreign Affairs. Vol. 71, no. 5. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  11. ↑ "Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile and Upheaval in the Middle East by Deborah Amos". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  12. ↑ Brown, L. Carl (2010-08-25). "Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East". Foreign Affairs. Vol. 89, no. 5. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  13. 1 2 "Deborah Amos Archives". Nieman Reports. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
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