
Laurel Wamsley
Laurel Wamsley is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She reports breaking news for NPR's digital coverage, newscasts, and news magazines, as well as occasional features. She was also the lead reporter for NPR's coverage of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.
Wamsley got her start at NPR as an intern for Weekend Edition Saturday in January 2007 and stayed on as a production assistant for NPR's flagship news programs, before joining the Washington Desk for the 2008 election.
She then left NPR, doing freelance writing and editing in Austin, Texas, and then working in various marketing roles for technology companies in Austin and Chicago.
In November 2015, Wamsley returned to NPR as an associate producer for the National Desk, where she covered stories including Hurricane Matthew in coastal Georgia. She became a Newsdesk reporter in March 2017, and has since covered subjects including climate change, possibilities for social networks beyond Facebook, the sex lives of Neanderthals, and joke theft.
In 2010, Wamsley was a Journalism and Women Symposium Fellow and participated in the German-American Fulbright Commission's Berlin Capital Program, and was a 2016 Voqal Foundation Fellow. She will spend two months reporting from Germany as a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow, a program of the International Center for Journalists.
Wamsley earned a B.A. with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. Wamsley holds a master's degree from Ohio University, where she was a Public Media Fellow and worked at NPR Member station WOUB. A native of Athens, Ohio, she now lives and bikes in Washington, DC.
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- Biden Nominates Samantha Power To Run U.S. Agency For International Development
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- Obama: 'A Moment Of Great Dishonor And Shame For Our Nation' — But Not A Surprise
- Former Presidents Bush And Clinton Blame 'Poison Politics' For 'Sickening' Violence
- Rep. Omar Says She Is Drafting New Articles Of Impeachment Against Trump
- Germany Moves Toward Requiring Women On Large Companies' Executive Boards
- Proud Boys Leader Released From Police Custody And Ordered To Leave D.C.
- Singapore Says COVID-19 Contact Tracing Data Can Be Requested By Police
- Kenosha: Negligence Claims Filed Against City And County Over Fatal Shootings
- Pittsburgh Police Search For White Pickup Truck After 2 Explosions Reported