Laurel Wamsley
Laurel Wamsley is a reporter for ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's News Desk. She reports breaking news for ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's digital coverage, newscasts, and news magazines, as well as occasional features. She was also the lead reporter for ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's coverage of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.
Wamsley got her start at ½ûÂþÌìÌà as an intern for Weekend Edition Saturday in January 2007 and stayed on as a production assistant for ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ's flagship news programs, before joining the Washington Desk for the 2008 election.
She then left ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, 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 ½ûÂþÌìÌà as an associate producer for the National Desk, where she covered stories including . She became a Newsdesk reporter in March 2017, and has since covered subjects including , , , and .
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 ½ûÂþÌìÌà Member station WOUB. A native of Athens, Ohio, she now lives and bikes in Washington, DC.
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