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About Andrea

 

Vogt is a journalist and author who lives and works between Europe and the U.S. Her work has appeared in various print and broadcast media, including The Independent,  Seattlepi.com, the German news magazine Der Spiegel, Review of Policy Research and Italy's leading weekly news magazine Panorama. 
She been interviewed for ABC 20/20 , CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America and Nancy Grace. Her news analysis in Italian has appeared on La7, TG1, RAI24 and Sky TG24. On the radio, her reports have aired on BBC, Northwest Public Radio and Sirius XM Radio.

She began reporting on the Meredith Kercher slaying in Perugia, Italy in November 2007 for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and continued Amanda Knox murder trial coverage from the courtroom throughout 2009 when the newspaper became the online news organization seattlepi.com. Her in-depth reporting on the case is highlighted as "a voice of reason" with "unbiased attention to detail" by authors of two new books, Angel Face: The True Story of Student Killer Amanda Knox and Darkness Descending: The Murder of Meredith Kercher.

In 2010 she researched and presented a five-part documentary series on homicides in Italy involving women, which aired on the Italian national television station, La7 in June. Segments of  first episode, where Vogt interviews Amanda Knox's attorney and the Italian magistrate who prosecuted her can be viewed here and here

In the U.S., one of Vogt's investigative stories helped bring a fugitive to justice in 2010. While a reporter for The Spokesman-Review in 2000, Vogt tracked down and contacted an-ex Pacific Northwest laywer accused of bilking millions from investors in a real-estate deal gone sour. Her report exposed "Koyote Karlos" and revealed his lavish life on the lam in the mountain highlands of Chiapas. In January 2010, federal agents arrested as he got off a plane in Los Angeles after a sting operation in Mexico using similar methods of making contact with him that she had utilized and written about in her story a decade before. He now faces felony charges in Washington State. You can read Vogt's original story here, and the story about his capture 10 years later here.

Author of two books, Vogt's first non-fiction work, Common Courage: Bill Wassmuth, Human Rights and Small Town Activism, chronicles the story of the grassroots community battle against the Aryan Nations and other neo-nazi hate groups in the Pacific Northwest. It is currently in its second printing. Bologna Inside, an expatriate's guide to living in Italy she co-authored and edited is available in both traditional and e-book format. A Fulbright scholar in journalism, she has also received Carl Duisberg Society International and Arthur F. Burns fellowships (Germany) and reporting awards from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists (USA). In April 2010, she appeared as a panelist at the International Journalism Festival and lectures regularly at academic and cultural institutes.
She is fluent and published in English, German and Italian.


Breaking news coverage of the Meredith Kercher murder and trial in Perugia, Italy

Seattlepi.com: Debate Over Knox's Guilt Continues, Italians Defend Justice System

Seattlepi.com: Computer and Crucifix: Italian Legal Analysis in Knox Case

"Best Opinion" The Week, June 11 2009, Andrea Vogt for the Seattle P-I

The Independent on Sunday: Amanda Knox Set to Take the Stand

The Independent on Sunday: After the Knox Verdict

View Media spots here: ABC 20/20 and Meredith Kercher documentary excerpt 1, 2 and 3La7 (Quicktime Player Required)

 

 



"Andrea Vogt's moving account of the life and brave death of Bill Wassmuth combines an investigative reporter's thoroughness with a poet's grasp of the spiritual side of his crusade against hate... a disturbing and insightful account of a Catholic  priest's soulful journey through the turbulence of the late 20th century."

Chicago Tribune columnist James Coates,
author of Armed and Dangerous:
the rise of the survivalist right.

"Thank you for this gift of love and truth,"
Idaho human rights activist Joann Muneta

 


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