Megan Greenwell

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Megan Greenwell
Alma mater Barnard College
Occupation(s)Journalist, editor
Known forEditor-in-chief of Deadspin and Wired.com

Megan Greenwell is an American editor and journalist. She was the first female editor-in-chief of Deadspin and editor of Wired.com. [1] [2] [3] She has written for publications such as ESPN The Magazine , GQ , Esquire , and New York Magazine .

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Biography

Greenwell grew up in Berkeley, California. Her mother is an Episcopal priest who currently serves as the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. [4] [5]

She attended Berkeley High School, where she was a reporter for the school newspaper, Berkeley High Jacket , and uncovered an indentured servitude and sex ring operated by Berkeley's largest landlord, Lakireddy Bali Reddy, [6] [7] before receiving her B.A. from Barnard College in 2006. [8] [5] [9] At Barnard, she was a fencer for the Columbia Lions fencing team and was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator . [8] [10]

Greenwell began as an intern, and soon covered the Iraq war from Baghdad for The Washington Post shortly after college. [11] She later covered education and philanthropy and was part was part of The Washington Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Virginia Tech shooting. [12] Greenwell was later the managing editor of GOOD Magazine, the inaugural features editor at New York magazine's lifestyle website The Cut and senior editor of ESPN The Magazine . [13] [14]

Greenwell was the executive features editor for Esquire.com and was hired as the fifth and first female editor-in-chief of Deadspin in 2018. [15] [16] She later became the editor-in-chief of Wired.com in 2019. [17] She left her post in 2021, citing "burnout." [18]

Personal life

Greenwell is married to David Heller, an assistant professor of internal medicine and global health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. [5]

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  2. ↑ "Megan Greenwell | Princeton Summer Journalism Program". psjp.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  3. ↑ Robertson, Katie; Tracy, Marc (2021-01-28). "Washington Post, Reuters and Los Angeles Times Search for New Top Editors". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  4. ↑ mmacdonald (2013-10-17). "Gail Greenwell named dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  5. 1 2 3 "Megan Greenwell, David Heller". The New York Times. 2016-10-16. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  6. ↑ Yi, Matthew (2000-01-21). "Young Berkeley journalists broke landlord story early". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  7. ↑ Dinkelspiel, Frances (2009-12-08). "10 years later: How 2 Berkeley High reporters broke sex-ring scandal". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  8. 1 2 "Megan Greenwell - Fencing". Columbia University Athletics. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  9. ↑ "George Starke '71 Helps D.C. Youths Excel | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
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  14. ↑ Browning, Kirsten. "The Cut hires first features editor". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
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