Tom Meagher is a journalist, data nerd and news hacker.
Prior to joining the Marshall Project, Meagher was the data editor at Project Thunderdome, the central news hub for Digital First Media. There, he led a team of journalist-developers that built interactive news applications and supported computer-assisted reporting projects for the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain.
He co-founded Hack Jersey to bring together journalists and developers to work with open data and solve news problems in the Garden State.
Previously, Meagher spent eight years as a reporter and editor in New Jersey. He was the data editor at The Star-Ledger in Newark, after working at the New Jersey Local News Service and the Herald News. His first job in journalism was as a night cops reporter for a small daily paper in Kansas.
A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Missouri-Columbia, Meagher lives with his wife and children in suburban New Jersey.
He’s covered cops and courts and built websites since the 1990s.