O’Matz briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2023: Debunking Conspiracy Theories, Receiving Personal Threats all Part of Statehouse Beat. 

Megan O’Matz is a reporter at ProPublica, where she covers issues out of Wisconsin. O’Matz previously worked at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, where she was on the investigative team. She and two colleagues were finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for stories on widespread fraud in federal disaster aid programs. She also shared in the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on the Parkland school shooting. Early in her career, she covered the statehouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for The Morning Call.