Megan Greenwell

Greenwell grew up in Berkeley, California. Her mother is an Episcopal priest who currently serves as the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati.[4][5]

She attended Berkeley High School, where she was a reporter for the school newspaper, Berkeley High Jacket, and uncovered an indentured servitude and sex ring operated by Berkeley's largest landlord, Lakireddy Bali Reddy,[6][7] before receiving her B.A. from Barnard College in 2006.[8][5][9] At Barnard, she was a fencer for the Columbia Lions fencing team and was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator.[8][10]

Greenwell began as an intern, and soon covered the Iraq war from Baghdad for The Washington Post shortly after college.[11] She later covered education and philanthropy and was part was part of The Washington Post team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Virginia Tech shooting.[12] Greenwell was later the managing editor of GOOD Magazine, the inaugural features editor at New York magazine's lifestyle website The Cut and senior editor of ESPN The Magazine.[13][14]

Greenwell was the executive features editor for Esquire.com and was hired as the fifth and first female editor-in-chief of Deadspin in 2018.[15][16] She later became the editor-in-chief of Wired.com in 2019.[17] She left her post in 2021, citing "burnout."[18]

Greenwell is married to David Heller, an assistant professor of internal medicine and global health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[5]