About Nicole Childers

CHILDERS, NICOLE A. is the executive producer of National Public Radio's News & Notes. She joined NPR as the senior supervising producer of the program in July of 2005. She is based in Los Angeles, CA. She began her journalism career as an intern for Diane Sawyer's staff at Primetime Live at ABC News. Childers joined ABC News in 1999 and went on to serve as an associate producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings where she covered major stories ranging from the attacks of Sept 11th, to the war in Iraq, and the death of Pope John Paul II. Childers has received numerous awards for her contributions, including two Emmy awards, a George Foster Peabody award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award, and two Edward R. Murrow awards. In the summer of 2004, she served as a producer for the launch of ABC News' digital channel, ABC News Now. She was also a member of ABC News' Diversity Committee and served as a board member for www.popandpolitics.com. In 1999, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Afro-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Projects

    • The Perfect Fire
    • At 3:41 a.m. on April 29, 2007, a tanker truck carrying 8,600 gallons of gas hit a guardrail on the Interstate 880 connector in Oakland, Calif., and overturned. A giant ...