{"id":1810,"date":"2019-09-11T15:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/questromwomensummit\/?post_type=portfolio&amp;p=1810"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:06:55","slug":"meghna-chakrabarti","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/questromwomensummit\/portfolio-item\/meghna-chakrabarti\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghna Chakrabarti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-aplucd-713456e26157407ccdd4157e8b7e6efe\">\n.avia-section.av-aplucd-713456e26157407ccdd4157e8b7e6efe{\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/questromwomensummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/06\/Color-Background-1-1500x630.png);\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-position:50% 50%;\nbackground-attachment:fixed;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section 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itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock av_inherit_color'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"\">Meghna Chakrabarti serves as host and editor of\u00a0<em>On Point<\/em>\u00a0from NPR and WBUR, along with David Folkenflik. Based in Boston, she is on the air Monday through Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She is the former host of\u00a0<em>Radio Boston<\/em>, WBUR\u2019s 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 also served as the primary fill-in host for\u00a0<em>Here &amp; Now<\/em>, NPR and WBUR&#8217;s co-produced national midday news program. And she is the host of\u00a0<em>Modern Love: The Podcast<\/em>, a collaboration of WBUR and The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Radio Boston<\/em>\u00a0has been frequently recognized for journalistic excellence by many of the nation&#8217;s top journalism associations. In 2018, the show won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for best news documentary for its complex, nuanced coverage of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/radioboston\/2017\/05\/29\/rb-jfk-centennial\">100th anniversary of John F. Kennedy&#8217;s birth<\/a>. The show has twice won the best large market talk show award from the Associated Press of New England. For three consecutive years, the national Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI) awarded\u00a0<em>Radio Boston<\/em>\u00a0its top prize for large market talk shows, citing the particular mix of intelligence, analysis, and personal voices in\u00a0<em>Radio Boston&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0coverage of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/radioboston\/2014\/09\/12\/school-desegregation-in-boston\">40th Anniversary of Boston&#8217;s Busing Crisis<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/radioboston\/2015\/05\/15\/tsarnaev-death-special-coverage\">Special Coverage of the Death Penalty Decision<\/a>\u00a0for the Boston Marathon Bomber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Before taking the helm at\u00a0<em>Radio Boston<\/em>\u00a0in 2010, she reported on New England transportation and energy issues for WBUR\u2019s news department. She also produced and directed\u00a0<em>On Point<\/em>\u00a0for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Asian American Journalists Association awarded Chakrabarti and her team the national excellence in radio\/audio award for Radio Boston&#8217;s special series on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/radioboston\/2015\/12\/14\/just-cause-ordinance\">the eviction crisis in East Boston.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Chakrabarti has won awards for individual reporting from both the Associated Press and the Radio Television News Directors Association for her writing, hard news reporting, and use of sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A former fellow at the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting, Chakrabarti holds bachelor\u2019s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Oregon State University (summa cum laude), as well as a master\u2019s degree in environmental science and risk management from Harvard University, and an MBA with honors from Boston University. She is the mother of two bright sparks, and the lucky spouse of a wise and patient man.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[],"class_list":["post-1810","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meghna Chakrabarti - Questrom Women&#039;s Summit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/questromwomensummit\/portfolio-item\/meghna-chakrabarti\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meghna Chakrabarti - 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