Jennifer Moore Bio
Jennifer Moore works as a reporter and producer at the NPR station for the Ozarks region in southern Missouri, KSMU Radio. She also files stories from rural America for NPR. She spent five years as a freelance journalist in the Persian Gulf, reporting for NPR and field producing for CNN International’s program “Inside the Middle East.” During that time, she also worked as a features reporter for the Middle East’s largest daily newspaper, The Gulf News, reporting on the humanitarian effects of the War in Iraq, and corresponded from the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. She studied abroad at the American University in Cairo, and speaks Gulf and Egyptian Arabic. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Today, she reports on how state and national politics uniquely affect rural Americans; this includes health care policy, elections, ethics in government and the justice system. She’s is based in her rural hometown of West Plains, Missouri. She reports from one of the poorest Congressional districts in the country, and tries to engage listeners in the political process through her stories. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, playing the piano and banjo, volunteering, and kayaking on the Ozarks rivers.
“Jennifer Davison did a fabulous job of breaking down this national issue into bite-size chunks that demonstrated how everyone is affected, from the hospitals to the patients and to the politicians who are grappling with it,” Dori Maynard.
“Excellent local examination of national controversy,” Jon Margolis.