Meg Kissinger Explained

Meg Kissinger
Birth Place:Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation:Investigative journalist
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:DePauw University

Meg Kissinger is an American investigative journalist and a visiting professor at Columbia University.

Biography

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. The book was named as one of the best memoirs of 2023 by Amazon, Audible and Goodreads and was chosen as the editors' choice by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The Atlantic said it was one of six books that can "change the way you think about mental illness." 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.[1] Kissinger has also written extensively about the failures of the mental health system.

She was born in Wilmette, Illinois, the fourth oldest in a family of eight children. She attended St. Francis Xavier Grade School and Regina Dominican High School.[2] She graduated from DePauw University in 1979.[3] [4]

Awards

Work

External links

A bracing new memoir: CBS Mornings

Nieman Storyboard: Meg Kissinger On Writing the Tough Stories

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bisphenol A Reporting Team Is Finalist for Pulitzer. September 2009.
  2. Web site: Speaker Series - Regina Dominican High School.
  3. Web site: Investigative Reporter Meg Kissinger '79 Wins George Polk Award - DePauw University . Depauw.edu . 2012-06-12.
  4. Web site: Investigative Journalist Meg Kissinger '79 Receives National Award's Honorable Mention - DePauw University . Depauw.edu . 2012-06-12.
  5. http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/chronic-crisis-a-system-that-doesnt-heal-milwaukee-county-mental-health-system-210480011.html?ipad=y#!/emergency-detentions/
  6. Web site: Kissinger . Meg . Law creates barriers to getting care for mentally ill . JSOnline . 2011-12-10 . 2012-06-12.
  7. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes | Investigative Reporting . Pulitzer.org . 2012-06-12.
  8. Web site: Pulitzer Prize Finalist - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Bisphenol A Gets Pulitzer Finalist . The Daily Green . 2009-04-20 . 2012-06-12 . 2009-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090424123838/http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/bisphenol-a-pulitzer-47042005 . dead .
  9. Web site: Behm . Don . Journal Sentinel reporters win Polk Award for BPA series . JSOnline . 2009-02-21 . 2012-06-12.
  10. News: For Their Risk-Taking, Journalists Garner Polk Awards . The New York Times . Robert D. . McFadden . 2009-02-17.
  11. Web site: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:Site Map . https://web.archive.org/web/20100614105642/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1175295293877/page/1212610808273/simplepage.htm . dead . 2010-06-14 . Journalism.columbia.edu . 2012-06-12 .
  12. http://www.granthamprize.org/winners/2009aosm

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