Amanda Peacher is an award-winning journalist. Currently the senior acquisitions editor for the national public radio show Marketplace, Amanda works with freelance reporters to bring creative, well-crafted, rigorously reported stories to Marketplace’s broad national audience.
With nearly two decades of newsroom experience, Amanda has worked as a managing editor, reporter, bureau chief, executive producer, and community engagement journalist.
She is most proud of the podcast “LOCKED: a disturbing crime, a desperate act, and how one case could change the way prisons treat some transgender inmates.” The podcast was featured by the New York Times and won the national Al Neuharth award for innovation in investigative journalism.
Amanda is also an adjunct professor at the University of California-San Diego Department of Communication, where she teaches audio reporting and podcast production.
You can check out her previous work as a Marketplace reporter here.
If you’re a freelance reporter wanting to produce a story for Marketplace, go here.
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