Department of Journalism

Barbara Meagher joins the faculty 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, a founding member and director of Access Rhode Island, has written several articles for RI Lawyers Weekly and currently is doing work for WRNI, Rhode Island's NPR station. She earned her M.S. degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University.

Kendall Moore comes to URI after 15 years of television reporting, documentary film producing and broadcast journalism production with a focus on medical news and social and political issues. As a producer and reporter she has worked for PBS, P.O.V., ABC News/Discovery Health, the Discovery Channel, Fox and Reuters. Most recently she spent a year on a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. There she taught nonfiction/fiction writing and television production in addition to producing educational television programs on the AIDS epidemic for the Tanzanian Parliament. She manages a non-profit media organization, Communipod, designed to create access to the media for traditionally underrepresented groups. She earned an MA. in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research.