Allie Barton

Multimedia Journalist

Mesa, Arizona

Allie Barton is a recent master’s graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication who has filmed, edited and produced videos about resilient people across the U.S., Mexico and Peru.

During her studies, Allie worked on several short documentaries and reported for Cronkite News and Cronkite Noticias, the school's Spanish news broadcast. 

She traveled to Peru with a reporting team to produce a multimedia project about the plight of the more than 700,000 Venezuelan migrants who had settled there to escape economic and political instability.

While there, she filmed a short documentary about a Peruvian hostel that had housed several thousand migrants. In 2019, she was a Carnegie-Knight News21 fellow and traveled across the country to report for State of Emergency, an in-depth investigation about natural disaster mitigation and recovery, which won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award. 

A native Arizonan, Allie chose to pursue journalism because it combined her love of writing, studying history and creating videos. She is passionate about amplifying the voices of historically excluded groups of people through visual storytelling. You can find her work at alliebarton.com