Amy Jeffries
Assistant News DirectorAmy Jeffries is KNKX's assistant news director. With her leadership, the KNKX newsroom won the 2024 national Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence and a Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting from the national Society of Professional Journalists.
She has worked as a reporter, producer, and editor in public radio newsrooms all over the country, including as the daily news editor at WUNC in Chapel Hill, as a founding editor of the Kansas News Service, and as a contributor to NPR. She has also edited and reported for Patch, GlobalPost, and the Associated Press.
Originally from Connecticut, she is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has a master's in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. When she’s not cultivating audio, she grows vegetables and tries to entertain a cuddly chihuahua mix named Sweet Potato.
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The executive order, temporarily blocked by a federal court in Baltimore, threatens federal funding to hospitals providing gender-affirming care for people under age 19.
