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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Murders are falling dramatically in many U.S. cities, after a surge in 2020 and 2021. Crime analysts say a reinvestment in communities from both the government and private sources after the disruption of the pandemic is a key reason.
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The man suspected of killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband now faces federal and state murder charges. Authorities say he had a "hit list" of 45 elected officials.
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The man accused of killing and wounding state lawmakers in Minnesota and their spouses faces federal and state murder charges. Authorities say it was a carefully planned political assassination.
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Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. He appeared in federal court after being charged with murder. -
Authorities are looking for 57-year-old Vance Boelter, who is suspected of shooting two Minnesota state lawmakers.
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A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings Saturday at their homes near Minneapolis, officials said. -
The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. So the government is intensifying its hunt for more space, and local police are playing a bigger role. -
A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year — almost four times the government's estimate for the cost of incarceration. -
Musicians, poets and artists have shown up day after day to bring a livelier energy to the intersection in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed five years ago this weekend. Hear how they're using the arts to try to heal.
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Five years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, the future of the intersection where it happened is uncertain. Today, a memorial is set up in the partially blocked street. But some want to move on. How does a community reckon with its past and confront its future?
