Walter R. Ratliff

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Walter Ratliff is a journalist with the Associated Press in Washington, DC . His recent work includes a series of video reports on the struggle between radical and moderate voices for the future of Islam.

Ratliff launched the Washington desk for AP’s Internet division in February 2001, then became Lead Producer of international coverage for AP's new Online Video Network in 2005. Today, he is the Content Manager for AP-Television in Washington.

Just prior to joining the world’s largest newsgathering organization, Ratliff produced a documentary on Muslim-Christian violence in northern Nigeria, and covered the funeral of executed human rights leader Ken Saro-Wiwa in the Niger Delta region. He also worked closely with Arabs, Israelis and Europeans delivering news from the United States.

His international research and documentary work includes Israel, Jordan, Egypt and the Philippines. While on an archeological dig with Harvard University near the Gaza Strip, he witnessed the upheaval surrounding Yasser Arafat’s return from exile following the Oslo Accords.

He has also worked as a reporter for a leading ABC affiliate, and covered Capitol Hill as freelance correspondent for Christianity Today magazine. He began his broadcasting career as a teenager at KLYT-FM in Albuquerque, NM.

His academic career includes a Master’s degree in Islam and Muslim – Christian Relations from Georgetown University, and a Master’s in international mass media from Wheaton College, the evangelical academic flagship. Holds also holds a joint degree in Journalism and Religious Studies from the University of New Mexico.