Meg Dalton
Director of Audio Storytelling and Talk ShowsMeg Dalton is the director of audio storytelling and talk shows at Connecticut Public where she oversees the station’s talk shows and podcasts, including the limited series 'In Absentia'.
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.
Meg earned her master's degree from Columbia Journalism School in 2017, where she specialized in audio storytelling and narrative writing, and has taught audio storytelling at Columbia Journalism School, UnionDocs, and public libraries.
Off the clock, she enjoys making horrible puns, attempting to hike every National Park, and hanging out with her cat, Nora Ephron. She also works with Empowerment Avenue’s Writer’s Cohort, a one-on-one volunteer model in which outside editors work with incarcerated writers to workshop and publish their work.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three sports superfans! Banjo Man (SF 49ers and Oakland A's), Ronnie “Woo Woo“ Wickers (Chicago Cubs), and Bob Labonne (UConn Huskies). -
This hour, we explore Connecticut music. We talk to a violinist who grew up in Connecticut, a DJ supporting other women in the industry and the team behind an upcoming documentary on New Haven music venue Toad's Place. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two memory champions - including one world record holder - and find out about the methods they use to memorize anything. -
This hour on Disrupted, we look at representation in beauty pageants, from Miss Connecticut to the first-ever Miss AI Beauty Pageant. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet a woman who was a character interpreter of an enslaved woman, and a man whose job it is to act like a patient to train med students. -
It’s hard getting your book published. It’s even harder when you’re an author of color. This hour on Where We Live, Christine Kandic Torres and Victoria Buitron talk about their debut books, navigating the publishing industry, and the importance of centering marginalized voices. -
Hear from a Paralympic swimmer who lost part of her leg in a shark attack last year and a competitor in the first-time Olympic sport of breaking, which has its roots in hip-hop culture. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet people who love something so much that they made a palooza out of it: Pogoing, lighters, origami, and John Philip Sousa marches! -
We’re talkin’ about beer-can chicken with PBS host and James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Steven Raichlen. Plus, the Seasoned team gathers to reflect on the show's four-year run. -
A panel dissects the latest in the movie industry from the lack of a Barbie/Oppenheimer phenomenon this year to the possible end of the summer blockbuster as we know it.
