Megan Farmer
Visual Journalist & Editor
About
Megan Farmer is a visual journalist and visual editor who joined KUOW in 2017. In recent years, Megan documented Seattle’s uprising for racial justice and against police brutality. She also documented the epicenter of the first U.S. Covid-19 outbreak and the impacts that the pandemic has had on Seattle and the region.
Previously, she worked for the Omaha World-Herald in Omaha, Nebraska. She has also worked stints at two smaller newspapers, the Post-Star in Glens Falls, New York, and the Daily Times in Farmington, New Mexico, as well as interning at the San Francisco Chronicle and Lincoln Journal Star. Megan graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2013, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photojournalism.
Megan's work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, The Associated Press, The GroundTruth Project, Bleacher Report, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Omaha World-Herald and The Seattle Times.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Stories
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The smoke is here. Hazardous air quality in Seattle as wildfires rage
Smoke from wildfires burning in California, Oregon and Washington has made it's way into the Seattle area.
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Photos: Wildfires burning near Tacoma suburbs
Dozens of wildfires continue to burn across Washington state.
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Covid on the Block: The pandemic's impact on Beacon Hill neighbors
Everyone has a story. That was the mantra as KUOW reporters set out to chronicle the lives of people who live and work on a small block in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood in the time of Covid-19. Read those stories at covidontheblock.com.
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Photos: Final moments of the CHOP as police clear the area
"A lot of people think CHOP was a place," said David Lewis. "Capitol Hill was just where this movement started. We are CHOP. That is not CHOP."
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Dispatches from CHAZ, Seattle's new autonomous zone
For 10 nights, Seattle police faced off with protesters on Capitol Hill in Seattle. As one, cops formed a thick wall protecting the East Precinct.
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Car drives into Seattle protest; driver shoots 27-year-old male protester
A car sped into protesters on Sunday evening in Seattle on Capitol Hill, just before 9 p.m.
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PHOTOS: Thousands gather in Seattle to protest the police killing of George Floyd
Thousands gathered in Seattle on Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by a white police officer who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, as he repeatedly said, ‘I can’t breathe,’ in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.
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PHOTOS: Seattle-area seniors reflect on graduating into a changed world
For Seattle-area seniors, the pandemic has upended the milestones that typically signify an end to their high school chapters.
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Photos: A night with the Seattle Quarantine Parade
"I'm from New Orleans, so kind of anything is an excuse for a parade," Hank Lomasney said.
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Murals transform Seattle's boarded up businesses: 'Hope is not cancelled'
Across Seattle, muralists are transforming boarded up businesses and restaurants.
