Karen Zamora
Karen Zamora is a Mexican-American producer for NPR’s flagship afternoon news magazine program, All Things Considered, where she first interned in 2013.
Since rejoining the production team in 2021, Zamora has produced on-the-ground breaking news coverage of the 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire on the Hawaiian Island of Maui.
Zamora previously worked at Minnesota Public Radio, where she produced hundreds of live, hour-long call-in shows on topics ranging from pandemic life to breaking news. At MPR, Zamora was part of a team that won a Public Media Journalists Association award for their coverage of January 6th.
She also worked for NPR member stations KAWC in Yuma, Arizona, and KUT in Austin, Texas, and as a public safety reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Zamora grew up along the Southwest border between the Imperial Valley, San Diego and El Paso, and earned her degree in journalism from Texas State University.
During her free time, she can be found reading romance novels and collecting souvenir fridge magnets from her travels. She remains convinced that one day, she'll finally learn how to ride a bike.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the war in Iran.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Christine E. Wormuth of the Nuclear Threat Initiative about the state of a potential nuclear arms race now that the current nuclear-arms-control treaty has expired.
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We're continuing to learn more about the 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
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831 Stories is all-in on the romance genre, and the founders are cultivating a whole world around the books they publish, complete with fanfiction and merchandise. -
More than 2,000 people could be displaced by the construction of the Río Indio dam. The Panama Canal Authority says the dam solves a long-term water shortage problem. -
President Trump says he wants to buy Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal. NPR's Juana Summers and Ari Shapiro compare their recent reporting from both locations.
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Panamanians were caught off guard to find themselves at the center of President Trump's expansionist agenda. We visit the canal, attend protests and report on Rubio's message to the people of Panama. -
When President Trump talks about "taking back" the Panama Canal, many Panamanians in El Chorrillo recall Operation Just Cause — the 1989 U.S. invasion to oust dictator Manuel Noriega. -
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Victoria Knapp, chair of Altadena Town Council, about the destruction in her town from the Eaton fire.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with a man he met in 2017 who was locked up in immigration detention. A judge finally let him return to his family, but he now wonders what the next four years will bring.
