Megan Greenwell is an American editor and journalist. She was the first female editor-in-chief of Deadspin and editor of Wired.com.^[1][2][3] She has written for publications such as ESPN The Magazine, GQ, Esquire, and New York Magazine.

Biography[edit]

Greenwell grew up in Berkeley, California. Her mother is an Episcopal priest who currently serves as the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati.^[4][5]

She attended Berkeley High School, where she was a reporter for the school newspaper, Berkeley High Jacket, and uncovered an indentured servitude and sex ring operated by Berkeley's largest landlord, Lakireddy Bali Reddy,^[6][7] before receiving her B.A. from Barnard College in 2006.^[8][5][9] At Barnard, she was a fencer for the Columbia Lions fencing team and was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator.^[8][10]

Greenwell began as an intern, and soon covered the Iraq war from Baghdad for The Washington Post shortly after college.^[11] 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.^[12] Greenwell was later the managing editor of GOOD Magazine, the inaugural features editor at New York magazine's lifestyle website The Cut and senior editor of ESPN The Magazine.^[13][14]

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.^[15][16] She later became the editor-in-chief of Wired.com in 2019.^[17] She left her post in 2021, citing "burnout."^[18]

Personal life[edit]

Greenwell is married to David Heller, an assistant professor of internal medicine and global health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.^[5]

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