Follow WBURMeghna Chakrabarti
Meghna Chakrabarti is the co-host of Radio Boston, WBUR’s acclaimed weekday show with a focus on news, in-depth interviews with extraordinary people, and analysis on broader issues that have an impact on Boston and beyond.
She is also the primary fill-in host for Here & Now, NPR and WBUR’s newly expanded national midday news program.
Before taking the helm at Radio Boston in 2010, she reported on New England transportation and energy issues for WBUR’s news department. She also produced and directed WBUR’s national news and talk program, On Point, for five years.
Chakrabarti has won awards from both the Associated Press and the Radio Television News Directors Association for her writing, hard news reporting, and use of sound. On Radio Boston, her interviews have encompassed a wide range: Secretary of State John Kerry and law professor Anita Hill, actor F. Murray Abraham and pianist Lang Lang, language expert Steven Pinker and author Lois Lowry, comedians Mindy Kaling and Rachel Dratch, public radio favorites David Isay and the late David Rakoff, and many more.
A former fellow at the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting, Chakrabarti holds bachelor’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Oregon State University, as well as a master’s degree in environmental science and risk management from Harvard University.
She earned an MBA with honors from Boston University in 2013.
Listener Letters: Critically-Ill Girl
May 31, 2013Here & Now fill-in host Meghna Chakrabarti responds to listeners’ feedback on our story yesterday, “Dying Girl Sparks Debate Over Organ Transplants.”
Matt Damon: ‘Hold On To Your Humanity’
April 26, 2013
Matt Damon goes back to Harvard for the Arts Medal.
Behind The Scenes At Warren’s Campaign Headquarters
November 07, 2012An essay on what the television cameras didn’t see Tuesday night at Elizabeth Warren’s campaign headquarters in Boston.
A Status Update And A Fight Against Bullying
November 02, 2012
After being taunted one day for her pigtails, Maisie Kate Miller, of Marblehead High, used her Facebook page to launch a campaign against bullying.
The ‘Olmsted Elm,’ Reincarnated
September 13, 2012
RISD students shaped the honey-colored wood from the Olmsted Elm into sculptures that are now on display at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historical Site in Brookline.
Visionaries: Terri Lyne Carrington, Jazz Prodigy
April 24, 2012
From a teenage appearance on the “Tonight Show” to a 2012 Grammy Award, Terri Lyne Carrington remains a role model not just for drummers, but for aspiring female musicians everywhere.
Acoustica Electronica Remixing The Classics
February 17, 2012
Acoustica Electronica is the brainchild of Touch Performance Art, a group that brings together musicians from local conservatories and classically trained DJs to reinvent and remix the most commanding of the classics.
Last Secret Recordings Of JFK Reveal Income Inequality As Issue In Re-Election Bid
January 24, 2012
The JFK Library has released 45 hours of audio recordings made during the final months of Kennedy’s life. We take a closer look.
Gingrich Talks Immigration, Campaign Finance In Manchester
January 08, 2012MANCHESTER, N.H. — Newt Gingrich held a post-debate town hall meeting in Manchester that had all the trappings of a candidate looking ahead to primaries in South Carolina, Nevada, and Florida as he watches his New Hampshire poll numbers sink.
Do Some Leaders Have ‘First-Rate Madness’?
August 25, 2011
In a new book, Dr. Nassir Ghaemi claims the best crisis leaders are either mentally ill or mentally abnormal.