Megan Zahneis is a student journalist at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
There, she is a managing editor at the weekly campus newspaper, The Miami Student, and editor of The Miami Student Magazine, which published its first print issue in fall 2017 and was named Best Student Magazine in the Society of Professional Journalists’ regional Mark of Excellence awards.
Megan will graduate from Miami in May 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, a co-major in Interactive Media Studies from the Armstrong Institute of Interactive Media Studies, and a minor in Disability Studies.
In the 2018-19 academic year, Megan is serving a Geoffrion Family Fellow in Miami University Humanities Center’s “Truth and Lies” Altman Program. The research project she is undertaking as a Fellow examines the state of American journalism in a post-truth era.
During the summer of 2018, Megan joined The Chronicle of Higher Education as an intern, covering breaking news in academe and penning several enterprise- and feature-length pieces. She was named the 2018 winner of The Chronicle’s David W. Miller Award for Young Journalists.
Megan has been a correspondent at Major League Baseball, where she interviewed players, coaches and celebrities for a column.
She enjoys exploring the intersection of leadership and disability through her work with the Miami University Students with Disabilities Advisory Council and the DREAM national board. Megan also has a chapter forthcoming in a edited volume on disability from the publisher Peter Lang and frequently presents at disability-oriented conferences.
Megan believes in the power of well-told true stories and is pursuing opportunities that will allow her to practice bringing those stories to the world.
