Amanda Moyer is a national correspondent for CNNRadio and is based at CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta. She joined the network as an anchor/editor in January 2005 and shortly after her arrival she was promoted to a coordinating producer position at CNNRadio.
Moyer has covered a number of major stories for the network. In May 2007, she was the only network radio correspondent in Greensburg, Kan., providing live coverage of the F5 tornado that hit the small farming community, destroying nearly every structure. In 2006, Moyer provided live coverage of the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah with reporting from Jerusalem, Haifa and the Israeli/Lebanese border. Also that year, she covered the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans. Moyer spent three weeks on the Gulf Coast in 2005 as a correspondent for the network covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the devastation Hurricane Rita left behind in both Texas and Louisiana. While there, Moyer co-anchored coverage of President George W. Bush's speech from New Orleans.
Prior to coming to CNNRadio, Moyer was a general assignment reporter and afternoon drive co-anchor at WILM-AM Newsradio in Wilmington, Del. During her time at WILM, Moyer won several awards for reporting, including national honors for her coverage of the Iraq War. Moyer traveled to Baghdad in the fall of 2003 and focused on the daily routines of troops from Dover Air Force Base. Prior to that, Moyer was an anchor at WEEU-AM in Reading, Penn.
Moyer graduated from Penn State University with a degree in communications.
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