Meghan
Offtermatt
storytelling services
JOURNALIST | AUDIO PRODUCER | PODCASTER
ABOUT MEGHANMeghan is an award-winning journalist and audio producer based in New York City.
Meghan Offtermatt is an award-winning journalist and audio producer based in New York City. Right now, Meghan is the Production Director at WFUV 90.7 FM, an NPR affiliate in the Bronx. She is the Executive Producer of the station’s weekly podcast, “FUV Live Sessions” and she oversees all other creative non-music audio elements that run on air. She has also reported and produced two award-winning feature stories of her own, including No More 24, which won a Gracie Award in 2023 and The Contribution, which won a PMJA award in 2024.
She created and oversees the Student Audio Production program at WFUV, where she teaches undergraduate Fordham students the tenets of audio production and ethical journalism.
She has also worked extensively as a freelance journalist and audio producer. Her freelance work has been featured on podcasts by PRX, Dow Jones, MarketWatch, Best Case Studios, BikerLass Productions, Midnight MPH and Evanston Rules. Most recently, she produced episodes for Season 3 of PRX’s show, Food, We Need to Talk. She got her start in audio when she co-conceived the podcast, How to Save the World. The show focused on accessible climate-change solutions for a broad audience.
She is the proud recipient of a Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied while pivoting careers during the pandemic. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a dual degree in Environmental Studies and a minor in Anthropology. Prior to pursuing journalism, she was a full-time musical theater performer. Ask her about all the animals she’s had to portray on stage – you won’t regret it.
She is based in Astoria, Queens and is celebrating 15 years in New York City this year.
FEATURED
FEATURED
Sounds of Progress
Women in the music industry have been breaking down barriers for years, but has anything really changed?
This story is about what it’s like to be a woman in the music industry today as told by some of music’s most beloved female artists. Click to listen.
AWARD-WINNING STORIES
AWARD-WINNING STORIES
The Contribution
In 1964, Linda Richards learned a secret about her grandmother, Mary. Mary had helped women in Cleveland, Ohio during The Great Depression. How she helped them might surprise you.
This story was reported, produced + hosted by Meghan and won the 2024 PMJA Award for Best Division A Enterprise Story. Click the button to listen.
No More 24
Home healthcare aides in New York City work for 24-hour shifts, but only get paid for 13 hours of work. Now, these women are fighting to stop this practice.
This story was reported, produced + hosted by Meghan and won the Gracie Award for Best Reporter/Correspondent for non-commercial radio in 2023. Click the button to listen.
WFUV 90.7
WFUV 90.7
Click the button to find Meghan’s feature stories from the WFUV newsroom
Recent Work
FUV Live Sessions: Brittany Davis
(photo by: Gus Philippas)
Meghan sat down with multi-hyphenate singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer Brittany Davis to have a heart-to-heart about self perception, artistic vulnerability and peeling back the musical layers of Davis’ 26-track 2024 album, Image Issues.
Hosted, produced & edited by Meghan Offtermatt.
FUV Live Sessions
FUV Live Sessions
FUV Live Sessions
FUV Live Sessions is a music podcast brought to you by WFUV in New York City.
As Executive Producer, Meghan repurposed the station’s long-time series, FUV Live, into the FUV Live Sessions show.
You can listen to live sets + interviews with the artists wherever you get your podcasts. Click a button to listen on Apple Podcasts. You can also listen on Spotify and at wfuv.org.
Food, We Need to Talk
Food, We Need to Talk
Meghan worked on Season 3 of PRX’s "Food, We Need To Talk”
Click a button to check out the episodes she produced and edited!
Best New Ideas in Money
Best New Ideas in Money
Meghan mixed & engineered select episodes of MarketWatch’s “Best New Ideas in Money”
Click a button to check out an episode!
Podcast Samples
Podcast Samples
Writing
Writing
PHILOSOPHYTelling stories gives us the chance to connect. To connect with each other, with our pasts, to live more fully in the present and to look towards the future. My focus is to tell stories with empathy, transparency and clarity.
SERVICESReady to tell your story? Check out my services to see how I can help.
Freelance audio production including all elements from start to finish of the production process: research, fact-checking, interviewing, cutting tape, scripting, recording, hosting, mixing and publishing.
Freelance writing including reporting, copywriting and editing.
Podcast audio editing including assembling episodes, mixing and engineering.
“I’ve been a storyteller for my whole life. I used to tell stories on stage. Now my medium is audio. I want people listening to my stories to feel the same way they might feel sitting in a theater.”
Meghan Offtermatt • Journalist & Audio Producer
