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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