Amos attended the
University of Florida, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. Her first job in the journalism field was for
ABC Orlando, where she was hired as a TV news reporter. Amos first gained attention in the journalism world for producing the NPR radio documentary
Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown. After producing several radio documentaries, she became a foreign war correspondent in 1982. In 1989 she covered
Poland's first democratic election, the
Tiananmen Square protests, Amos is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at
Princeton University. She was previously the James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the
State University of New York at New Paltz in 2013 and 2015. In 2016 she was named vice president of the
Overseas Press Club of America. In the 2020s, Amos has focused her reporting on covering refugee issues. == Publications ==