Walter Ratliff

Who is Walter Ratliff?

Walter Ratliff is an award-winning journalist and religion scholar based in Washington, DC. He is a religion editor and content manager at the Associated Press. In 2011, he won a gold medal for nonfiction war writing in the Reader's Favorite book awards for Pilgrims on the Silk Road: A Muslim-Christian Encounter in Khiva. He was also the producer/director of the documentary Through the Desert Goes Our Journey: The Mennonite Trek to Khiva, for which he won an Emmy Award from the Heartland chapter of the NATAS. His most recent book is Christians and Muslims at the Epicenter: How the Sept.11th Attacks Shook and Transformed American Evangelicalism.

Ratliff has worked as a documentary consultant and researcher for German television, including ZDF and Arte. At the Associated Press, he produced a series of documentary reports on Islam in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Great Britain’s immigrant community and America’s prisons. He also won a "Beat of the Week" award for his work on AP's Pope John Paul II multimedia profile.