Megan Cloherty

I am a broadcast journalist with 24 years of experience finding enterprise stories, writing dynamic scripts, and delivering a strong on-air product on deadline.

I’m a somewhat headstrong, sassy extrovert. I love scuba diving, reading, adding to my houseplant collection and hanging with my family. I also have a Welsh terrier, who I am pretty obsessed with. You’ll find my full updated resume at this link.

 

I am not afraid of a data set, love a fresh court document, and enjoy digging to add context to my stories. My favorite story is the one that makes a change. That can be changing the world of just one person by getting them out from under an unfair billing agreement, for example, or by informing an entire community about the trial of a man accused of killing their neighbor. In both instances, it was a life-changing event and important to them. I consider my role in reporting the truth a responsibility, no matter the size of the impact.

 

More than a decade ago, I earned my master’s in Interactive Journalism. With that degree, I honed my expertise in reformatting TV/radio/podcast content for the digital medium at stations in D.C. and Colorado. I have created and hosted four successful news podcasts, which I also voiced, edited, and marketed. Now, I am a hybrid investigative and daily reporter for WRAL News in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I also anchor.

 

I began podcasting in 2012 by co-creating the “It’s All Journalism“ podcast to highlight how journalists across the country were trying new things, navigating social media, and finding new and interesting ways to tell a story. In 2019, my WTOP colleague and I launched a 14-episode narrative podcast retelling the trial and conviction of Daron Wint, in what came to be known as the Mansion Murders case. Three years later, another colleague at WTOP and I launched a daily news podcast which we researched, produced and published each weekday afternoon. Finally, in 2025, I re-launched the true crime podcast with new content, including exclusive interviews no one in on the local or national stage had secured.

 

Now I’m happy to be contributing to the amazing work of an award-winning station that treats its employees like family.