Meg Heckman

The loss of local newspapers is “really damaging to civic life and civil discourse, and the ability of average people to be informed about their community,” says Meg Heckman, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.

Meg Heckman, an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University, explains that marginalized groups, including people of color, women, and LGBTQ people, have long been left out of traditional newsrooms, and, in response, they’ve created their own independent publications.

Meg Heckman is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University, where she leverages historical and contemporary research to dismantle journalism’s macho culture and improve representation of women in news media. 

Meg Heckman, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, researches the role of women in journalism. She said she would be playing the clip to her students to trigger a discussion when they return in the fall.

Meg Heckman – author and assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University. She worked as a reporter and editor for the Concord Monitor newspaper for more than a decade.

My Northeastern colleague Meg Heckman has written an important thread about political endorsements by news organizations. Her starting point is the Concord Monitor’s unusual decision not to endorse in the New Hampshire primary. 

Meg Heckman advises the Scope, an experimental digital magazine housed in Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and focused on telling neighborhood stories of justice, hope and resilience in Greater Boston.