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Maggie is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and producer based in New York City focusing on wrongful convictions, the criminal legal system and social issues. She is the host and producer of "Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng", "Murder in Alliance" and "Unjust & Unsolved" podcasts focusing on wrongful convictions and the crimes that are consequently left unsolved. She is also the host and producer of the International Documentary Award and Pulitzer Prize winner "Suave" on PRX.
Maggie is an Adjunct Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and 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. Maggie was also a TV documentary host for VICE and previously Oxygen's "The Disappearance of Maura Murray".
Her podcast "Suave" won the 2022 IDA award and was nominated for the 2022 Livingston Award for National Reporting. She is a Webby and iHeart nominee. Her work has been featured in 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. 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).
Maggie 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.
She returned to New York in 2012 following an offer at Women’s eNews. There, she most notably wrote about low-wage female workers in retail and fast food right when the Fight for $15 was kicking off in Times Square. Her passion to cover social justice started there.
Maggie is an Adjunct Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and 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. Maggie was also a TV documentary host for VICE and previously Oxygen's "The Disappearance of Maura Murray".
Her podcast "Suave" won the 2022 IDA award and was nominated for the 2022 Livingston Award for National Reporting. She is a Webby and iHeart nominee. Her work has been featured in 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. 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).
Maggie 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.
She returned to New York in 2012 following an offer at Women’s eNews. There, she most notably wrote about low-wage female workers in retail and fast food right when the Fight for $15 was kicking off in Times Square. Her passion to cover social justice started there.