Meg Kissinger is an American investigative journalist and a Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is the author of “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence”, published by Macmillan on Sept. 5, 2023. While working at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she and Susanne Rust were finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their investigation of Bisphenol A. Kissinger has also written extensively about the failures of the mental health system.
She was born in Wilmette, Illinois, where she attended Regina Dominican High School. She graduated from DePauw University in 1979.
Awards
2013 George Polk Award for Medical Writing http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/chronic-crisis-a-system-that-doesnt-heal-milwaukee-county-mental-health-system-210480011.html?ipad=y#!/emergency-detentions/ 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting finalist 2008 George Polk Award 2008 John B. Oakes Award for distinguished environmental reporting Scripps Howard National Journalism award, 2009 and 2010 2009 Grantham award of special merit
Work
"Chemical Fallout", Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
References
External links
"Logan Symposium: How the Sausage Is Made? (Journalists)", Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism "Please Explain: BPA", WNYC, February Nieman Storyboard: Meg Kissinger On Writing the Tough Stories http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2012/02/08/meg-kissinger-on-writing-the-tough-stories/
American women journalists
Living people
George Polk Award recipients
DePauw University alumni
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel people
Year of birth missing (living people)