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Maggie is an award winning journalist and producer reporting on wrongful convictions, the criminal legal system and social issues. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Though the life-long New-Yorker has found refuge in Austin living part-time with her cats and cacti.
She is the host and producer of the Pulitzer Prize winning podcast "Suave" on PRX. "Suave" also won the 2022 International Documentary Award and Maggie was nominated for the 2022 Livingston Award for National Reporting on "Suave".
Maggie is also the host and producer of the Signal and Anthem award winning podcast "Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng" and the newly released “Up and Vanished Weekly” podcast.
Maggie is the 2024 winner of the iHeart Media Social Impact award for her work on "Wrongful Conviction."
Maggie is formerly the Producer-at-Large for NPR’s Latino USA. She was an NPR Next Generation Radio fellow and 2019 Ford Foundation "50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism" fellow. In 2023 she was honored during "World Woman Hour" by the World Woman Foundation for "breaking the role" as a female change-maker.
Maggie strongly believes in mentorship and is part of NPR's Next Generation Radio mentorship program. She was a fellow herself in 2016 before joining the mentor cohort in 2018, proudly mentoring for 6 projects.
She graduated with an M.A in Journalism focusing on Health & Sciences and Radio Broadcast from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in December 2015. She earned a B.A in Journalism and English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011.
While in Massachusetts Maggie focused on conservation reporting and wound up interning at the US Fish and Wildlife Service before returning to New York in 2012 following an offer at Women’s eNews. There, she most notably wrote about the Occupy Wall Street movement and low-wage female workers in retail and fast food when the "Fight for $15" was kicking off in Times Square. Her activism and passion to cover social issues started there.
Her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The LA Times, The Atlantic, Spin, The Observer, Democracy Now!, MSNBC, NPR, Vulture, People, HLN, WNYC, NPR's Code Switch, NBC New York, WHYY, Dr. Phil, Dr. OZ, Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, and Voices of New York. She was the New York blog correspondent for Stop Street Harassment and was a production assistant at WAM! (Women, Action, and the Media).
She is the host and producer of the Pulitzer Prize winning podcast "Suave" on PRX. "Suave" also won the 2022 International Documentary Award and Maggie was nominated for the 2022 Livingston Award for National Reporting on "Suave".
Maggie is also the host and producer of the Signal and Anthem award winning podcast "Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng" and the newly released “Up and Vanished Weekly” podcast.
Maggie is the 2024 winner of the iHeart Media Social Impact award for her work on "Wrongful Conviction."
Maggie is formerly the Producer-at-Large for NPR’s Latino USA. She was an NPR Next Generation Radio fellow and 2019 Ford Foundation "50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism" fellow. In 2023 she was honored during "World Woman Hour" by the World Woman Foundation for "breaking the role" as a female change-maker.
Maggie strongly believes in mentorship and is part of NPR's Next Generation Radio mentorship program. She was a fellow herself in 2016 before joining the mentor cohort in 2018, proudly mentoring for 6 projects.
She graduated with an M.A in Journalism focusing on Health & Sciences and Radio Broadcast from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in December 2015. She earned a B.A in Journalism and English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011.
While in Massachusetts Maggie focused on conservation reporting and wound up interning at the US Fish and Wildlife Service before returning to New York in 2012 following an offer at Women’s eNews. There, she most notably wrote about the Occupy Wall Street movement and low-wage female workers in retail and fast food when the "Fight for $15" was kicking off in Times Square. Her activism and passion to cover social issues started there.
Her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The LA Times, The Atlantic, Spin, The Observer, Democracy Now!, MSNBC, NPR, Vulture, People, HLN, WNYC, NPR's Code Switch, NBC New York, WHYY, Dr. Phil, Dr. OZ, Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, and Voices of New York. She was the New York blog correspondent for Stop Street Harassment and was a production assistant at WAM! (Women, Action, and the Media).