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, 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. -
Historian Rebecca L. Davis has heard a lot of false claims about the history of sexuality. She joins us to explain why that history is more complex than many believe. -
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. -
In this hour of 'Disrupted,' Elizabeth Ito, creator of 'City of Ghosts,' discusses using people's real voices in her work, and Bethonie Butler talks about her book 'Black TV.' -
On this Gracie Award-winning episode of Audacious, hear the story of intersex activist, Pidgeon Pagonis. They successfully changed one hospital's policies on surgeries for intersex children.
