Jamie Friar is an award-winning journalist and broadcast news producer whose career spans more than four decades including 32 years with the Associated Press in Washington. His first assignment, while still a college student, was covering the May Day anti-war protests for the very first All Things Considered Broadcast on National Public Radio.

Friar was a staff reporter for WFAA Dallas and news director at KZEW in Dallas and KMEL in San Francisco. He joined AP Radio in Washington in 1984 and stayed with the AP until his retirement in March of 2017.

At AP Radio, he covered everything from a presidential DNA stain to tiny presidential hands. 9/11, two Gulf Wars, two shuttle disasters, two Clintons running for president, and too many Kardashians.

Friar was also the Lifestyles Editor for AP Broadcast and wrote the daily Kickers feature, one of the most widely-used of all AP wire products.

His awards include the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television Digital News Association for his part in the AP Radio coverage of the 9/11 attacks. Friar has also received breaking news, feature and investigative reporting honors from the Press Club of Dallas, the American Bar Association and the California Associated Press Television and Radio Association.