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 two people with genetic conditions that make them look much older than they actually are: Cutis laxa and progeria. -
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. -
It’s hard getting your book published. It’s even harder when you’re an author of color. This hour on Where We Live, local authors Christine Kandic Torres and Victoria Buitron talk about navigating the publishing industry and the importance of centering marginalized voices. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two unconventional presidential candidates: Paperboy Love Prince, and a man who changed his name to Literally Anybody Else. -
Amy Tan tells us about her relationship to nature and journaling, from meditations on birds and mortality to her changing experience of racism to her former fear of sharks. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet actors Adam Pearson and Crystal Marshall, who have visible facial differences. They are changing the face of leading roles in entertainment. -
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 episode of Audacious, meet people who have devoted their lives to loving wild animals: Thumbelina the squirrel and Walnut the endangered crane. -
New Haven’s official historian, Michael Morand, doesn’t sugarcoat the past. This hour on Disrupted, we explore the histories of New Haven and Yale, including their roles in slavery. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who overcame their compulsion to steal, and one psychiatrist who studies impulse control disorders like Kleptomania.
