Jennifer Moore is a nationally recognized, award-winning journalist and moderator based in Boston.

Jennifer works as the Senior Statewide & Features Editor at GBH News, where she leads the Connecting the Commonwealth initiative across three public media newsrooms.

A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she spent five years in the Persian Gulf region as a freelance journalist contributing to NPR and as a fixer for CNN-International. She worked as a reporter for the NPR station in the Ozarks, KSMU Radio, before serving as News Director there during the pandemic. She’s a contracted freelancer for The New York Times and NPR.

She has reported feature stories and filed news reports on human rights abuses of domestic workers and the humanitarian toll of the second Iraq War. For CNN-International’s program, “Inside the Middle East,” she worked in the Arabic language as a freelance “fixer” to locate members of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s cabinet who had fled Iraq. She also reported on the Hajj pilgrimage from Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Her reporting has earned multiple regional and national awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award for writing, the Excellence in Legal Journalism award from The Missouri Bar, and the Honorable Mention for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting from Syracuse University. Jennifer was a fellow in the prestigious Health Journalism Fellowship in Boston.