Tom Meagher

Senior Editor

Tom Meagher is a senior editor. His reporting at The Marshall Project has been honored with a Data Journalism Award and the international Malofiej’s first human rights special award. Under his editing The Marshall Project has won the National Magazine Awards for Best Website twice and another time for digital innovation, as well as the Online Journalism Award for General Excellence. A veteran reporter and editor, he previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor at The Star-Ledger. He got his start in journalism covering night cops for a small daily paper in Kansas.

Participating Sessions

COLLABORATION IN ACTION

For a variety of reasons, be they practical or philosophical, many filmmakers and journalists are engaging the protagonists of their films, not as subjects, but as collaborators. What does collaboration between filmmakers and subjects look like in action? What are some factors that precipitate a shared project, and what are the distribution of roles, resources and credits? Who gets the final cut, or the final say in how the story...