Megan Farmer
Visual Journalist
About
Megan joined KUOW as a visual journalist in 2017. Recently, Megan documented Seattle’s uprising for racial justice and against police brutality. Throughout the last year, she has 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 with a minor in International Relations.
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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Thousands of Seattle students walk out of school to protest gun violence
Shortly after classes started Monday morning, students walked out from schools all around Seattle and met at a rally in front of City Hall. The march came less than a week after a 14-year-old allegedly shot and killed a student at Ingraham High School.
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KUOW Blog
Photos: Seattle students send message to city hall in wake of Ingraham shooting
Hundreds of students in Seattle walked out of their schools and gathered at city hall in the wake of a shooting at Ingraham High School.
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KUOW Blog
Scenes from 2022 election night in Western Washington
15 slides
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KUOW Blog
Photos: Seattle ranked worst city in the world for air quality
Seattle ranked as the worst city in the world for air quality on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, as smoke from wildfires continued to engulf the region.
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KUOW Blog
Transported 'by land, by sea, by air,' endangered kokanee salmon released into Lake Sammamish
"We have now transported these little fish by land, by sea, by air," said King County Executive
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KUOW Blog
Photos: Bolt Creek fire continues to burn
The Bolt Creek fire continues to burn on Monday, September 12, 2022.
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KUOW Blog
Photos: Record-breaking heat in the Seattle area
The heat wave continues in western Washington with temperatures reaching the mid-90s.
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Trans 'die-in' at Amazon disrupts company Pride party
The activists say Amazon continues to sell books that knowingly promote transphobia
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KUOW Newsroom
The restored Elwha River, 'hidden gem' of the Olympic Peninsula: Travel For Good
At the north end of the Olympic Peninsula, trucks carrying massive trees rumble through the town of Port Angeles. Humans here have dramatically altered the old-growth forests that ring the snowy peaks of the mountains nearby. But residents are working to preserve what they can of this wilderness.
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City of Seattle begins clearing Woodland Park homeless encampment
Parks and Recreation workers arrived Tuesday morning to begin removing a homeless tent and RV camp in Phinney Ridge’s Woodland Park. The mayor’s office says in recent months outreach workers have referred more than fifty people at the park to temporary shelter but others have packed up their belongings and moved elsewhere.