Emily Harris, NPR Biography
Foreign Correspondent, Berlin
Berlin correspondent Emily Harris reports on developments in Germany and surrounding countries for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and NPR Newscasts.
In 2005, Emily spent a year at Stanford University as a John S. Knight Journalism fellow studying political Islam. In 2004, she reported extensively from Iraq, on special assignment.
Harris moved into her current role in November 2002, after serving as NPR's correspondent for the NPR/PBS collaboration NOW with Bill Moyers. Before coming to NOW in early 2002, Harris was a general assignment reporter for NPR's national desk. She covered a broad spectrum of issues, trends, people, and developments in the post, but her pieces often involved regulatory and political developments, including stories related to decisions made at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Harris joined NPR full-time in October 2000. Before coming to NPR, Harris spent 2 1/2 years as a DC correspondent for Feature Story News, an independent radio and TV news agency. There she reported for U.S. and overseas radio and TV programs, specializing in economic and trade issues. In the United States she reported for Nightly Business Report, PRI's Marketplace and The World, Fox News, and Minnesota Public Radio. Her work with foreign press included work with South African Broadcasting, Channel News Asia, Radio New Zealand, and several others.
Before her work with Feature Story News, Harris spent two years producing an award-winning live daily public affairs radio show Which Way, L.A.? with Warren Olney for member station KCRW in Santa Monica. Prior to that, Harris reported from Moscow, Russia, for two years, working for Feature Story News and Monitor Radio. She also worked at The Los Angeles Times Moscow bureau as a researcher and stringer. Harris entered radio at KBOO, a community station in Portland, Oregon.
Emily's work for NPR has earned high praise, including a share in NPR's 2004 George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of the war in Iraq. Her 2005 Morning Edition report on Berlin's controversial memorial to the Jews who died in the Holocaust won the 2006 second place radio prize awarded by the RIAS Berlin Commission.
Harris received her bachelor's degree in Soviet Studies from Yale.
