Meg Marco

Acting Senior Director of the Applied Social Media Lab

Meg Marco is the acting senior director of the Applied Social Media Lab — part of the Berkman Klein Center @ Harvard University. Meg has held senior editorial positions at WIRED, ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal and Axios, and is the host and co-executive producer of The Extortion Economy, an investigative podcast from ProPublica and MIT Technology Review.

At ProPublica her team’s work was honored with the 2021 National Magazine Award for Social Media, and she co-edited the coverage of the coronavirus pandemic that was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

She is also formerly the editor and head of product of Consumerist, a Gawker Media publication that was acquired by Consumer Reports. During her tenure, Consumerist produced deeply reported coverage of topics such as fraud, surprise medical bills, for-profit colleges, telecom policy, consumer privacy and product safety.