Megan Fitzgerald
Senior Manager of Projects and Radio ProgrammingMeg Fitzgerald is the senior manager of projects and radio programming. She works with Connecticut Public's talk show producers to ensure our audio stories are represented digitally. She is a key liaison for our national radio programming. Meg also helps to manage and co-produce special projects like StoryCorps CT, Where ART Thou?, Generation Barney, Generation Gilmore Girls, and other program initiatives across our radio and podcast teams .
Meg started her career in the music and entertainment industry. She has booked artists and special events for art centers throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, including The Bushnell and Infinity Music Hall (Hartford, CT), the Warner Theatre (Torrington, CT), and The Kimmel Cultural Campus (Philadelphia, PA). She also programmed stages for the Philadelphia International Festival of Arts and worked with Live Nation.
In 2015, Meg joined Connecticut Public as an associate producer for Infinity Hall Live and The Kate, two nationally distributed public television music series. She also helped launch Connecticut Public's social media strategy in 2019.
When Meg's not diving into storytelling projects and music, she's studying astrology and herbalism. She loves nature, art, and spending quality time with her family and friends.
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CT Public's Maysoon Khan gives us the latest update on Connecticut's Clean Slate law and two professors discuss the way the legal system takes resources from marginalized communities -
Nine year-old Lola leaves England for six months in Germany. Then her exchange sister Hanna comes to the UK, and their bond starts to look a lot like real sisters. -
The life of U Thant is the subject of a new book by Thant Myint-U titled “Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World.” -
Meet two cancer survivors who rewrote endurance history: a marathon swim that shattered records, and an ultrarunner who ran 104 marathons in 104 consecutive days. -
Journalist Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years reporting on the death penalty. In 2020, she started witnessing the executions she'd write about. This week on 'Disrupted,' we examine the human impact of capital punishment. -
On this episode of Audacious, suicide attempt survivors Kevin Hines and Steve MacHattie share what a mental health crisis can feel like, and what helps people stay alive. -
On this episode of Audacious, an ER doctor from The Pitt, an FBI profiler, and a NASA astronaut reveal how experts make TV feel real, and why getting it right matters. -
While #MeToo went viral in 2017, the Me Too movement has been around for 20 years. This hour, we explore the role social media can play for survivors and what, if anything, has changed. -
On this episode of Audacious, two autism advocates - Temple Grandin and Kerry Magro - trace the power of autistic minds to redesign systems and reshape stories. -
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.
