Writer | Journalist | Truth-Seeker
Jennifer Lois Moore
Jennifer Moore is a nationally recognized, award-winning journalist who spent over half a decade in the Middle East.
While in the Persian Gulf region, she worked as a freelance journalist for CNN-International, NPR and The Gulf News newspaper.
She reported feature stories and filed news reports on human rights abuses of domestic workers and the humanitarian toll of the second Iraq War. For CNN-International’s program, “Inside the Middle East,” she worked in the Arabic language as a freelance “fixer” to track down members of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s cabinet who had fled Iraq. She also reported on the Hajj pilgrimage from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a city forbidden to those outside the Muslim faith.
Since returning to the United States, she’s interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee and Madeleine Albright. She won the 2014 Toner Prize Honorable Mention for Excellence in Political Reporting from Syracuse University, a national Edward R. Murrow Award for her writing on the Joplin tornado, and the Excellence in Legal Reporting award from The Missouri Bar. In 2019, Jennifer was a fellow in the prestigious Health Journalism Fellowship in Boston.
After nearly five years as the news director of the NPR station in the Ozarks region, KSMU Radio, she became the Statewide and Features Editor at Boston’s legacy public media giant, WGBH, where she works now.
She continues to freelance for NPR and The New York Times. She is the author of Covering Elections for Smaller Newsrooms: A Template. In 2021, she had the honor of serving as a juror for the Edward R. Murrow Awards.
