Meghna is fill-in host and reporter for WBUR's national midday show, Here and Now.
She previously reported on New England transportation and energy issues for WBUR's news department. Meghna 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.
Before joining the newsroom, Meghna was a reporter and fill-in host on WBUR's weekly show, Radio Boston. She produced and directed WBUR’s national news and talk program, On Point, for five years.
In 2006, she spent 10 months as a fellow at the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting.
Meghna holds bachelors degrees civil and environmental engineering from Oregon State University, and a masters degree from Harvard University. Her career has taken various detours through summers performing engineering failure analysis, teaching human physiology, working under the table at an Italian cafe, a turn as assistant curator for space technology at London's National Science Museum, researching flood control solutions for Venice, Italy, and writing two unpublished manuscripts.
She speaks French badly. Enough Italian to get into trouble. And is learning Hindi by subjecting herself to a long series of Bollywood films.
BOSTON — A lawyer for suspended MBTA safety director Cynthia Gallo is calling the suspension “retaliation” for Gallo’s complaints about gender pay inequity at the T.
BOSTON — Attorney General Martha Coakley barely mentioned the word Senate, and not once mentioned her opponents, while delivering the keynote address at the annual meeting of a Massachusetts real estate group.
BOSTON — The MBTA’s director of safety was suspended on Thursday, according to a state transportation official familiar with the matter.
BELMONT, Mass. — Nobel prize winning economist Paul Samuelson died Sunday at his home in Belmont. He was 94.
Reporter’s Notebook
The scene: Boston. A Chinatown restaurant just off Essex Street. Lavender walls and brushed ink paintings. A buffet spread complete with beef broccoli, fried rice and mu shu pork. And a big, green banner proclaiming “Steve Pagliuca For Senate.”
But where was Pagliuca? This was his campaign event. Supporters had come, so had people who [...]
BOSTON — The crowd chanted “Steve! Steve! Steve!” as Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca took to the stage to give his concession speech at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston’s South End. Pagliuca pledged to throw his support behind Democratic nominee, Attorney General Martha Coakley.
WESTON, Mass. — WESTON, Mass. — Democratic candidate Stephen Pagliuca rolled into Precinct 1 in Weston at 8 a.m. He cast his ballot along with his wife Judy. Pagliuca is greeting voters in several cities throughout the day.
Poll workers in Weston expected a roughly 20 percent turn out, potentially higher than in other parts of the state. A [...]
NEEDHAM, Mass. — In the second of three debates in the race for the U.S. Senate this week, candidates sparred over health care, the Patriot Act, Afghanistan and the economy. It was the most passionate and heated debate of the race so far.
Moderator Ed Harding asked maybe the most revealing question of the night thus far: Name one thing you, candidate, have done in your own homes to personally adjust in this recession.
Capuano: “Mostly lightbulbs.”
Pagliuca: “I’ve given more time and raised more money for charities.”
Coakley: “We cook in a lot more. We eat out less.”
Khazei: “We’ve cut [...]
Attorney General Martha Coakley took early hits in Tuesday night’s debate. Rep. Michael Capuano said Coakley had been on “both sides” of the debate over the Patriot Act. Panelist Janet Wu challenged Coakley on how voters could trust her with trillions of taxpayer dollars when she has barely $1,000 in her own savings account.
Coakley weathered [...]
Channel 5’s Ed Harding says they want to hear from viewers during Tuesday night’s debate. Tweet with the tag: #demdebate.
It’s a closed set at Channel 5. News media have been relegated to the reception area, while the four Democratic candidates for Senate face a moderator and cameras for Tuesday night’s debate. It’s the third televised face-off — others included the October debate at the JFK Library and an evening forum on WGBH.
Unlike other live [...]
BOSTON — Rich but rumpled. A deep thinker but also a risk-taker. A true diplomat but also a fierce competitor. These are just some of the contradictions embodied by Stephen Pagliuca. But are these contradictions a liability in bid for the Senate seat?
Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca takes a one-two punch from the Boston Herald Tuesday morning. Add to that the interesting media mix that come with these two stories and you have a microcosm of money, media and modern politics in Massachusetts.
Still riding the ripples from the Coakley-Capuano tit-for-tat over abortion and health care reform, Stephen Pagliuca unvieled a new video declaring he’ll be a “reliable” vote on health care reform.
BOSTON — The MBTA is taking its first significant step towards offering realtime information on where its buses are, and when they’ll get to the next stop.
So, he may have accidentally pulled the pin on a political grenade, but when Democratic candidate Stephen Pagliuca inadvertently declared that he’s pro-military draft, he threw himself into a rat’s nest of conviction and contradiction that has long plagued the Democratic party.
Staff for Democratic Senate Candidate have just sent out this blast e-mail to Massachusetts media:
PAGLIUCA STATEMENT CLARIFYING COMMENTS MADE REGARDING A MILITARY DRAFT
CAMBRIDGE, MA – U.S Senate Candidate Steve Pagliuca today clarified his comments made regarding a military draft:
“I was asked a question during this morning’s radio debate about reinstating the military draft that I [...]
Democratic Senate candidate and Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca says he supports the draft.
Not the NBA draft. The military draft.
Just 27 seconds. That’s all the time MBTA Orange Line operator Charise Lewis had to stop her train. As MBTA security camera images released Friday show, Lewis had just seconds to pull the emergency brake as she headed into North Station to avoid hitting a woman who had fallen on the track.
