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Michelle Megna

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About

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a lifestyle reporter at the New York Daily News, a magazine editor covering consumer technology, a foreign correspondent for Time and various newswires and local newspaper reporter.

Michelle is a lead editor for insurance at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. PPrior to covering insurance, Michelle was: a lifestyle reporter at the New York Daily News; a magazine editor covering consumer technology; a foreign correspondent for Time and various newswires; and a local newspaper reporter.

In her role as an insurance writer and editor, Michelle covers travel, auto, home, life and health insurance, distilling complex insurance topics for consumers. This involves writing and editing data-based and survey-based articles, company reviews and articles that help consumers make educated choices about insurance coverage.

Expertise

  • Travel insurance
  • Car insurance
  • Home insurance
  • Life insurance

Achievements

  • Journalist for 35 years
  • Worked as a local news reporter coving city politics, elections, government, schools, crime
  • Worked as a foreign correspondent based in Seoul, South Korea, for Time and DPA, the German national newswire
  • Worked as a magazine editor for one of the first consumer technology publications, owned by Disney
  • Worked as a magazine editor for Time Inc. Custom Publishing covering consumer technology
  • Worked as consumer technology and lifestyle reporter at the New York Daily News
  • Worked as an editor of several consumer technology and personal finance sites
  • Worked as editor of CarInsurance.com, Insure.com, Insurance.com covering consumer technology for QuinStreet.

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

B.A. in Communications, with a minor in Journalism

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About

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a lifestyle reporter at the New York Daily News, a magazine editor covering consumer technology, a foreign correspondent for Time and various newswires and local newspaper reporter.