Dianna Douglas
Associate Producer, National Desk
Dianna Douglas has produced NPR's signature news pieces from across the nation and around the world. In 2005, she spent a month in New Orleans covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and has returned frequently to the Gulf Coast in the years since to document the recovery. She completed two tours in Iraq as the bureau chief and producer for NPR in Baghdad, and won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for NPR's coverage of the American occupation and its effects on Iraq.
Douglas has interviewed dozens of soldiers and Marines injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for a year-long series with NPR's Joseph Shapiro on the medical care that wounded veterans receive; she visited their homes, interviewed their families, attended their surgeries, and told their stories to NPR's audience.
Douglas began her career at NPR in January 2003 as an intern for Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon, and spent five years directing and producing Morning Edition. Previously, she lived in Rome, Italy, for a year and a half as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Douglas received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Douglas grew up listening to public radio on WABE. She lives in Washington, D.C.
