Dianna Douglas
Dianna Douglas has produced NPR's signature news pieces from across the nation and around the world. In the spring of 2010 she spent five weeks embedded with the US Army in Kandahar. Her work with the Special Forces in Meiwan Province, the Military Police in Kandahar City, and the recently-arrived 101st Airborne Division in Zhari document the small victories and overwhelming challenges of the American mission in Afghanistan.
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 witness the recovery. She completed two tours in Iraq as the bureau chief and producer for NPR in Baghdad, and was part of the team that won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the American occupation and its effects on Iraq. She also produced two series with NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty one on the science of spirituality and one on polygamy among Muslim Americans—both winners of the Gracie Award.