Barbara Meagher Smith
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: Chafee 231Phone: 401-874-2196
Email: meagher6@verizon.net
Bio
Barbara Meagher (Smith) joined the faculty in 2003 after two years as an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. Before that, she had an outstanding 21-year career as a television news reporter. She got her start in television news in Plattsburgh, N.Y., where she was a news reporter and 11 p.m. anchor for WPTZ-TV.From 1983 to 2001, she worked at ABC6 in Providence, where she developed a specialty investigating government waste in a segment called "You Paid for It!" She also worked regularly as a substitute anchor. She is a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors, has written several articles for RI Lawyers Weekly, and has worked as a host/reporter for WRNI, Rhode Island's NPR station.
She is a founding member of ACCESS/RI -- a coalition of organizations and interested individuals who are working to ensure that public records and public meetings remain open and accessible to the public -- and in September 2003 was elected president of the group. She earned her M.S. degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University.
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