Megan Griffith-Greene

Megan Griffith-Greene is on the faculty at Poynter. Her work focuses on training and coaching funders interested in supporting local journalism, and is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This five-year program will teach philanthropic leaders about the ethical principles that guide newsrooms and how to effectively partner with newsrooms to strengthen communities, civic engagement and democracy.

Megan is an expert in audience-centered journalism practices and processes. Prior to coming to Poynter, she was the service journalism editor at The Washington Post, where her work focused on combining editorial strategy, product thinking and data-informed processes to increase reader value. Before that, she built the service journalism desk at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she created an evergreen strategy and a reporting structure that responds to and reflects reader needs.

Originally from Toronto, she also spent eight years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a number of roles including investigative journalism, new format experiments, audience engagement, podcast development and newsletter strategy. She lives in Washington, D.C.