[1] Amos attended the University of Florida, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism.
[2] Her first job in the journalism field was for ABC Orlando, where she was hired as a TV news reporter.
[3] Amos first gained attention in the journalism world for producing the NPR radio documentary Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown.
[6] In 1989 she covered Poland's first democratic election, the Tiananmen Square protests,[6] and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
[5][7] Amos is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University.