Meet Megan Burks
Megan Burks is a deputy managing producer at MPR News. Before that, she was a senior producer of Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Before joining MPR in 2019, Megan was an education reporter at KPBS, San Diego's public radio and television station. She also helped KPBS and Voice of San Diego launch “Speak City Heights,” a media collaborative covering community health and social justice in San Diego's immigrant and refugee communities.
Megan’s work has aired on NPR, PRI's “The World,” KQED's “The California Report” and public radio stations throughout the southwest via the Fronteras Desk network.
Megan was an integral member of the team that covered the murder of George Floyd and the trial of Derek Chauvin. The coverage won MPR News a National Headliner and a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association. Megan also won "Best Documentary" from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association for a nationally distributed radio special on the anniversary of Floyd's murder. She and a group of South High School students won "Best Multimedia Presentation" from the Public Media Journalists Association for a youth media project focused on the community where Floyd died.
Megan's earlier reporting helped reverse a magnet school policy that disenfranchised students of color, pushed reform in the San Diego Police Department and informed a California law requiring police to track racial profiling. The San Diego County Taxpayers Association awarded Megan its 2015 Media Watchdog Award for her look at dangerous and illegal housing conditions for Section 8 tenants, and the San Diego Human Relations Commission recognized her for bringing underrepresented voices to radio and television.
Megan was a USC Annenberg Health Journalism fellow and attended Loyola Law School's Journalism Law School. She graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in sociology. She was born and raised in San Diego and now lives in Minneapolis with her husband and dog.
You can find Megan Burks on LinkedIn.
Recent Contributions
- As Congress considers public media cuts, here’s how federal dollars are spent in Minnesota
- Medical examiner confirms U.S. Bank exec Terry Dolan died in Brooklyn Park plane crash
- As Trump cuts millions from Columbia, University of Minnesota urged to take action
- Life-saving medical care in jeopardy as USAID cancels contracts with Minneapolis agency
- Top Minnesota attorney: Birthright citizenship suit against Trump just the beginning
- Minnesota ER nurse shares experience with Red Cross at LA shelter for fire victims
- 5 ways Jimmy Carter’s presidency touched Minnesota
- Minnesota civil rights leader says Carter was an ‘important political voice in the struggle’
- Minneapolis City Council member Emily Koski joins mayor’s race
- With hunting party, Walz invites moderate male voters into the fold