Amy Walters

Amy Walters is a journalist for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Walters worked for Al Jazeera for over a year and National Public Radio for 15 years before that as a 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; the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; 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 Journalism Award for investigative journalism.