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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Arts & Life
Photos of the year: These were our favorites from 2018
We asked Megan Farmer, staff photojournalist at KUOW, to select her favorite images from this year — and we threw in a few of our own as well.
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PHOTOS: Spending Christmas in a Seattle church, hiding from deportation
The Las Posadas pageant tells the biblical story of Mary and Joseph seeking and being denied refuge. A downtown Seattle church put on the pageant for a man trying to avoid deportation to Mexico.
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Arts & Life
PHOTOS: Día de los Muertos at El Centro de la Raza
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Thousands in Seattle attend community vigil for Pittsburgh shooting victims
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Arts & Life
PHOTOS: I want ‘to be the first female Eagle Scout and beat my brother’
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Government
Photos: Indigenous People's Day march and celebration
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Government
Photos: Hundreds in Seattle protest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
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Health
VIDEO: Unclaimed ashes get final resting place in Puget Sound
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Health
Nearly 380 people died from overdoses in 2017
Nearly 200 people have died in King County this year so far from overdoses. In 2017, nearly 380 people died of overdoses — a 10-year record in the county.
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PHOTOS: 'Mad Max' smokescape envelops Washington state
The sky is ash gray; the lake is too. Wenatchee and Chelan, popular summer destinations for middle class Seattleites, look like the end of the world...