MEGAN RODRIGUEZ

I cover City Hall for the San Antonio Express-News.

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Since joining the publication, I have written about the cities of Alamo Heights, Olmos Park and Terrell Hills, the hill country and worked as a general assignment reporter.

I have written about a broad range of topics from a mother wary of sending her immunocompromised children back to school in a pandemic to a community outraged about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Since moving up to covering City Hall I have broken news about an embattled councilman whose predecessors insisted he not run for re-election in the wake of criminal charges.

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Prior to my time at the Express-News I covered Bryan and College Station city governments and Texas A&M University at The Eagle newspaper in Bryan, Texas. At The Eagle I wrote about  how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted people's lives, including a piece about internet access challenges that students in rural communities faced when schools shut down. During Winter Storm Uri, I wrote around a dozen stories, largely focused on power and water outages in the area.

Before writing for The Eagle, I was an intern on the business desk at the San Antonio Express-News where I wrote Q&A features on the city's leaders and other articles about technology and health care. ​

When I was a student journalist at Texas A&M University I worked my way up from a reporter to editor-in-chief of the student run newspaper, The Battalion. During my time as editor, I led the staff in covering George H.W. Bush's funeral and burial services in Washington D.C., Houston and College Station. I also led a three-part series about hazing in the Corps of Cadets, which was part of the Poynter College Media Project. For our work during the school year that I was editor, The Battalion was awarded the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award.