Meg Anderson
Meg Anderson is an editor on NPR's Investigations team, where she shapes the team's groundbreaking work for radio, digital and social platforms. She served as a producer on the Peabody Award-winning series Lost Mothers, which investigated the high rate of maternal mortality in the United States. She also does her own original reporting for the team, including the series Heat and Health in American Cities, which won multiple awards, and the story of a COVID-19 outbreak in a Black community and the systemic factors at play. She also completed a fellowship as a local reporter for WAMU, the public radio station for Washington, D.C. Before joining the Investigations team, she worked on NPR's politics desk, education desk and on Morning Edition. Her roots are in the Midwest, where she graduated with a Master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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Here are some stories from the NPR Politics team to catch you up on the news from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. -
Now running mates, Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will have to cross gulfs on some key issues including Medicaid expansion, LGBT rights and Trump's proposed Muslim ban. -
"I said something I should not have said," Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg. -
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence will debate Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Tuesday. Here's what you need to know about Pence before they face off. -
Among other remarks, Donald Trump called for more unity in the country while Hillary Clinton said she mourns "for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty." -
The deaths of two black men at the hands of police within two days has prompted responses from Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and President Obama. -
Whether the 2016 campaign email strategies are old or new or just a product of the times, they've certainly got the people of the Internet talking. -
More than half of Republicans and Democrats now have "very unfavorable" views of the opposing party, continuing a trend that's been going on for decades. -
Trump had to drop "university" from his enterprise's name, but it used similar tactics to institutions in the for-profit college industry, where students incur high cost and debt with low results. -
In a tweet Wednesday, the presumptive Republican nominee said he plans to meet with the National Rifle Association to talk about banning suspected terrorists from buying guns.
