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. 

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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