Meg Dalton
Former StaffMeg Dalton was a director of audio storytelling and talk shows at Connecticut Public.
She previously worked for The Takeaway from WNYC, in collaboration with GBH and PRX, and Mobituaries with Mo Rocca. She's also reported and edited for the Columbia Journalism Review, PBS NewsHour, Slate, MediaShift, Hearst Connecticut newspapers, and more. Her audio work has appeared on NPR, WNYC, WSHU, Marketplace, and WBAI.
Off the clock, she enjoys making horrible puns, attempting to hike every National Park, and hanging out with her cat, Nora Ephron.
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On this episode of Audacious: Awe explored! From a solar eclipse to music’s power. With psychologist Dacher Keltner, cellist Yumi Kendall, and listeners' stories. -
This hour, we learn from oral historians about a Black person imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp and the history of Connecticut's Puerto Rican communities. -
We talk with a gun violence expert who argues it's time for a new approach to preventing gun violence— one that looks at the culture of gun ownership in the U.S. -
Listening to the news, it feels like there are more natural disasters than ever. This hour, we learn the climate science behind that and look at how the word disaster affects our thinking. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet a lawyer who exclusively works with lottery winners, and a man who, at 21 years old, won a $28 million Powerball jackpot. -
Many people visit the beach during summer, but not all residents have access to our sandy shores. This hour, a peek behind the so-called "Sand Curtain" and beach segregation in Connecticut. -
We look at the tradition of Juneteenth and recognize its importance as a time to learn more about Black history in the U.S. -
While writing The Trouble of Color, historian Martha S. Jones saw how the complexities of her racial identity had been part of her family for generations. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet birder, Peter Kaestner! He discovered a new bird species, and became the first person to catalogue 10,000 birds! -
In this hour, we talk about what it's like to be a student journalist today with the Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center and a panel of student journalists.
