Amy Walters
Amy Walters joined the Baltimore Public Media team on February 24th as Midday's executive producer.
She formerly served as a producer for NPR based at NPR West in Los Angeles.
After graduating from Earlham College with a Bachelor's degree in English, Walters interned at NPR in the Middle East. After returning to the states she joined the staff of Morning Edition in 2000. Soon Walters was recruited to All Things Consideredand spent two years on the show. On September 11, 2001, Walters stood on top of NPR's Washington, DC, headquarters watching the smoke float by from the attack on the Pentagon. Walters contributed to NPR's award-winning coverage of that day. The following year she interviewed and produced several minute long segments of survivors remembering the loved ones they lost that day.
As NPR expanded west, Walters followed. A native of Southern California, Walters returned to the golden state as a field producer at NPR's new production facility near Los Angeles. She produced NPR's coverage of the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's election, award-winning coverage of California's prison system, and the death of pop legend Michael Jackson
Breaking news took up much of her time but she has also been recognized for her investigative work. With NPR's crime and punishment correspondent Laura Sullivan, Walters was honored with the DART Award for Excellence in coverage of trauma, the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for their NPR series, "The Sexual Abuse of Native American Women."
The next year Walters and Sullivan received both The Peabody Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Journalism for their series uncovering the truth about the 1972 murder in Angola, Louisiana.
She has traveled around the country and the world for NPR. She spent time in Baghdad and produced much of NPR's post-Katrina coverage in New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Walters also explored the life and culture of Los Angeles' notorious Skid Row neighborhood, spotlighted the culture and economics of the marijuana industry in Humboldt County and reported from Fort Hood, Texas, after the shooting massacre there.
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Host Tom Hall had some parting reflections as he brought today's final edition of Midday to a close. -
City Council President Zeke Cohen joins host Tom Hall on this final edition of Midday to talk about some key city issues, including a ban on data centers, proliferating smoke shops and a welcome hike in salaries for city employees. -
Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott joins Tom in Studio A for the final edition of Midday with the Mayor, their monthly conversations about key issues facing City Hall and the people of Baltimore. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, in her last Midday review, spotlights Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, the final production of retiring Everyman Theatre founder, Vincent Lancisi. -
Midday at the Movies dives into next week’s 2026 Maryland Film Festival, which will showcase more than 170 independent features and shorts. -
Kim Wehle, University of Baltimore Law professor and constitutional expert, joins Tom to analyze today's arguments at the Supreme Court over President Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship. -
Baltimore Public Media’s Program Director, Maxie Jackson, joins Tom to discuss Midday’s cancellation April 2nd, and new programs to come at WYPR. -
Sharon Mashihi, the daughter of Jewish Iranian immigrants to the US, talks with Tom about exploring the diaspora’s conflicted wartime emotions — in her podcast and in her own life. -
Aaron David Miller, Mideast policy analyst and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Tom to discuss what an end to the US-Israeli war on Iran might look like. -
Singer-songwriter Jayla Elise Diggs – who sang in a recent state senate committee hearing – and Banner columnist Rick Hutzell discuss Maryland's search for a new state song.
