Meg Martin
206 Church St SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Meg Martin is associate director of the Minnesota Journalism Center, where she coordinates programming, operations and connections with newsrooms, journalists and support organizations across the state.
She is a freelance editor, fact-checker and story coach, working with local newsrooms and podcast teams across the country. She spent nearly a decade at MPR News as a digital editor, podcast editor and managing editor for regional news, special projects and partnerships. She was an editor with the Public Insight Network; led the digital team at The Roanoke Times in southwest Virginia; and began her professional career as a Naughton Fellow and digital editor at The Poynter Institute.
She spent the 2022-23 academic year as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, studying how best to prepare, support and connect editors and team leaders in small and mid-size local newsrooms — a project she's building on with her work at the Minnesota Journalism Center.
Educational Background
- Knight-Wallace Fellowship: The Critical Middle: Supporting and Connecting Editors and Team Leaders to Reimagine Newsrooms, University of Michigan, 2022-23
- Certificate in Professional Leadership: Batten Leadership Institute , Hollins University, 2010
- B.A.: English, University of Notre Dame, 2005