Deborah Amos

Deborah Amos teaches Migration Reporting at Princeton University in the Fall term. She was first named a Ferris Professor in 2012 and has returned to Princeton to continue teaching as the University expands its journalism program.  
Amos is a former correspondent for National Public Radio with four decades of reporting from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the US. 
 
In 2022, Amos was among the 22 recipients of the Berlin Prize Fellowship for a semester at the American Academy Berlin.  
 
In 2020 Amos won a Dart Award for “Syria Torture Survivors Seek Justice.” The judges noted; “a case study of thorough, humane, and complete reporting.” 
 
2017:  IWMF Courage in Journalism Award for a career of war reporting.  
  
2013 The Alfred I. DuPont-­‐Columbia Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and was honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her coverage of the Syrian uprising. 
 
 2010 The Edward R. Murrow Life Time Achievement Award by Washington State University. 
 
In 2009, Amos won the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting from Georgetown University. Amos was part of a team of reporters who won a2004 AlfredI. DuPont-­‐ColumbiaAward for coverage of Iraq. 
 
In 2013 and again in 2015 she was named the James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz.  She taught a one-semester journalism course. 
 
In 2018 Amos taught a one-­‐week radio production class at Columbia University for entering Master’s degree candidates and a semester course in radio news reporting. 
 
A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1991-­‐1992,Amos returned to Harvard in 2010 as a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School to write a research paper on the Iraqi media.

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Deborah Amos
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