Megan Greenwell is an American editor and journalist. She was the first female editor-in-chief of

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and editor of

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Biography

Greenwell grew up in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emer ...

. Her mother is an Episcopal priest who currently serves as the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

. She attended Berkeley High School, where she was a reporter for the school newspaper, '' Berkeley High Jacket'', and uncovered a indentured servitude and sex ring operated by Berkeley's largest landlord, Lakireddy Bali Reddy, before receiving her B.A. from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

in 2006. At Barnard, she was a fencer for the Columbia Lions fencing team and was the editor-in-chief of ''

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''. Greenwell began as an intern, and soon covered the Iraq war from

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for ''

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'' shortly after college''.'' She later covered education and philanthropy and was part was part of The Washington Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking the

Virginia Tech shooting The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an u ...

. Greenwell was later the managing editor of

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, the inaugural features editor at ''New York'' magazine's lifestyle website The Cut and senior editor of ''

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''. Greenwell was the executive features editor for Esquire.com and was hired as the fifth and first female editor-in-chief of ''Deadspin'' in 2018. She later became the editor-in-chief of

in 2019. She left her post in 2021, citing "burnout."

Personal life

Greenwell is married to David Heller, an assistant professor of internal medicine and global health at

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eight ...

References

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