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About

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Meredith is a visuals editor, photographer and art director with an expertise in explanatory visual journalism and a deep interest in alternative digital storytelling.

Meredith joined NPR in 2013, producing award-winning digital projects that illuminate science topics through visual reporting, animation, photography and video. In the past few years, she’s reported from Hong Kong during the early days of the pandemic, photographed the experiences of the first patient to receive an experimental CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease and covered post-wildfire issues from Australia to California. She produced science explainer videos on the physics of bullets to how long you can be contagious with the flu. As an art director, she helped build NPR’s diverse freelancer community and launched the network’s first longform comics. Her interest in experimental storytelling led to the creation of innovative interactives, including a visual guide exploring plastics and NPR’s Joy Generator, which was recognized with an Edward R. Murrow award for Innovation in 2022. In 2023, she left NPR and began freelance editing with The Marshall Project and NPR. She is currently a part-time adjunct faculty member at George Washington University in D.C.

Meredith holds an MFA in New Media Photojournalism from Corcoran College of Art + Design and a degree in Photography from Wolverhampton University in the U.K. Prior to her life in journalism, she photographed thousands of artifacts at the Library of Congress, contributing to a public online archive of more than 150,000 images over four years.

 
 

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2023 Gerald Loeb, for Diagnosis: Debt, a KHN/NPR collaborative reporting project

2022 Edward R. Murrow, Innovation for NPR’s Joy Generator

2019 White House News Photographers Association, Animation for Bullets: A Physics Primer

2019 Society for News Design, Award of Excellence for Plastics

2018 Society of Illustrators, Gold Award in Animation for Invisibilia: Maladaptive Daydreaming