American
Megan Garber is an American journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic, where she writes about culture, media and politics. Earlier in her career she worked at Nieman Journalism Lab and Columbia Journalism Review, covering the news industry itself. Her essays treat public life as a performance staged for an audience, and they pay close attention to how entertainment, technology and politics shape one another. She won a Mirror Award for her media writing. Her books include Screen People, and On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics, a short collection of essays on misinformation and political culture published in 2023 in the Atlantic Editions series. Garber writes in a clear magazine style for general readers, and she is known for cultural criticism that links small details of everyday media to larger questions about attention, truth and power.