Megan is an award-winning producer and correspondent with 15 years of experience in news, documentary and magazine-style television. She has reported on a wide range of issues - from health care and climate change to poverty and criminal justice - across the U.S. and from 20 countries around the world.
For the last decade, Megan has reported on-camera for PBS NewsHour’s weekend show. She also served as substitute anchor.
Megan also worked for the PBS series Need to Know, Worldfocus, NOW on PBS, and Treasures of New York and produced for Bloomberg TV and Teaching Channel.
In addition, Megan is a skilled cinematographer and editor with extensive experience shooting on Canon and Panasonic cameras and editing in Final Cut and Adobe Premiere.
Megan has been nominated for four Emmys, and has won four Headliner Awards, three Gracies and a Student Academy Award. She is the recipient of a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism and a Pulitzer Center reporting grant.
Prior to her career in journalism, Megan worked in politics and on Capitol Hill as a communications director, legislative aide and researcher. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and MA in Journalism from New York University.
Awards / Honors / Grants
-2020 National Headliner Award for breaking coverage of El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, PBS NewsHour Weekend
-2019 Pulitzer Center grant for “The Future of Food,” PBS NewsHour Weekend
-2018 Emmy Nomination, “America Addicted,” on PBS NewsHour
-2016 NY Emmy Nomination, “Ladies of the Land” on Inside Lens
-2015 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship
-2014 Emmy Nomination, “Costly Generics,” PBS NewsHour Weekend
-2014 Gracie Award, “Costly Generics,” PBS NewsHour Weekend
-2014 National Headliner Award, “Costly Generics,” PBS NewsHour Weekend
-2014 National Headliner Award, “Hawaii GMO,” PBS NewsHour Weekend
-2014 National Headliner Award, “Tale of Four Tax Returns,” Need to Know
-2013 Emmy Nomination, “The Mass. Mandate,” Need to Know
-2013 National Headliner Award, “The Massachusetts Mandate,” Need to Know
-2010 Gracie Award, “Liberia’s Long Road Back,” Worldfocus
-2008 WGBH Lab Grant, “Politics of Smear: Muslims and the 2008 Election”
-2007 Student Academy Award, Silver Medal, “Ladies of the Land”
-2007 Gracie Award, “Ladies of the Land”
-2006 Grant award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for “Ladies of the Land”