Amy Walters

Who is Amy Walters?

Amy Walters is a Producer for Al Jazeera America's flagship program, "America Tonight" and a 15 year veteran NPR reporter and producer.

After graduating from Earlham College with a Bachelor's degree in English, Walters joined NPR's Middle East Bureau. In 2000 she joined the staff of Morning Edition in Washington, DC, then NPR's All Things Considered where she contributed to NPR's award-winning coverage of September 11th.

In 2003, Walters moved to Los Angeles as a field producer for the network. Producing NPR's coverage in California and around the world. Walters covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring in Libya and Egypt, humanitarian and environmental disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, the BP oil spill and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as well as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's election, California's troubled prison system, and the death of pop legend, Michael Jackson.

Walters has produced a number of stories with NPR’s Investigative Unit and Correspondent Laura Sullivan, winning Peabody Awards, a duPont-Columbia Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for investigative journalism.