Megan McSweeney
Assignment Desk Editor / Digital Content Producer
Cleveland, Ohio
Megan McSweeney joined Cleveland 19 News in January 2023 as an Assignment Desk Editor and Digital Content Producer.
She graduated from Kent State in 2022 and is excited to start her career in the city she grew up in.
When Megan isn't writing, she spends her time on the lake racing sail boats and trying new coffee shops. She's passionate about audio storytelling and looks forward to every Sunday when the new This American Life episode is released.
Before joining 19 News, she spent her summers teaching campers how to sail dinghys and school years writing for student media outlets. Recently, her senior reporting project was nominated for the Student Award for Diversity through Kent State's School of Media and Journalism.
The victim reportedly drove himself to the hospital.
Jordan Justice, 11, died unexpectedly after days with a cough, according to his family.
The Savannah Bananas are coming to Cleveland! The baseball team is hitting the road in the Summer of 2024, stooping in Cleveland August 10.
A football play with an anti-semitic play became cause for concern at the Beachwood v. Brooklyn High School football game Friday night.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Cedar Point for age discrimination after learning that seasonal workers age 40 and up were denied employee housing based on age, according to a press release.
Cleveland firefighters found a grisly scene when responding to a fire in the 3200 block of West 84th Street Saturday.
Officers found five dead family members at the Uniontown, Ohio, residence.
A man fell into a Columbus Zoo exhibit Thursday after climbing on top of a handrail during the noon Cheetah Run presentation.
She is the second Cleveland mother to be charged with murdering their child in as many days.
An Ohio woman who was convicted of stealing from elderly patients has been sent to jail.
The Bowling Green Police Division is actively looking for two inmates that escaped a corrections center.
Multiple fire departments worked together to clear Mooreland Mansion an hour before a wedding was set to start.
A Norfolk Southern train derailed late Wednesday in New Castle, Pennsylvania, 20 miles from East Palestine.
Aaron Parsons was taken into custody Wednesday. He was wanted for aggravated robbery with a gun, officials said.
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern following the train derailment in East Palestine seeking injunctive relief, cost recovery and civil penalties.
A train conductor was killed in a crash involving a dump truck in the Cleveland area early Tuesday morning.
The new construction Chagrin River Walk Apartments in Willoughby went up in flames, and the wind blew the fire to surrounding buildings, cars, and fields.
