Before joining IRE staff in July 2022, Doug Meigs was managing editor of scholarly journals based out of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience. Previously, he was executive editor of Omaha Magazine. He has written for The Omaha World-Herald, Indian Country Today, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, CNN, The South China Morning Post, China Daily, Foreign Policy and other media outlets. He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has taught at the University of Hong Kong Journalism and Media Studies Center and University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of English.