Meghan O'Brien
News Intern
Meghan O’Brien is a student news reporter at Nebraska Public Media and a junior studying journalism and English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She joined the newsroom in January 2024. Meghan also currently reports for the culture section at the Daily Nebraskan and will be taking on the role of managing editor at the DN in the fall. Outside of reporting, she’s usually cheering on the Huskers or reading.
Recent News Stories
- Decline in drug overdose deaths is still concerning to DEA officials
- DHHS reports first pediatric flu death in Nebraska
- Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center opens new location in central Nebraska
- UNMC partners with Mid-Plains Community College to grow workforce
- Data suggests no Nebraska hospitals comply with federal price transparency rule
- Survey available for Nebraska livestock producers to share feedback
- Finding mental health services can be hard for new Americans. Bilingual therapists hope to change that
- NPPD announces 2% rate increase for 2025
- Madonna Rehab to offer long COVID seminar for second year
- Summer EBT program sees success, looks to future of program
- Nebraska Holiday Passport stops announced
- DHHS announces upcoming listening session dates
- Narcan vending machine launched to reduce opioid overdoses
- Medical marijuana legalization will be on November ballot
- Hilgers files lawsuits against four Norfolk THC shops over labeling practices
- Telemedicine gives rural Nebraska rescue services a boost
- Omaha museum welcomes Martin Luther King III at upcoming civil rights celebration
- SNAP education program builds community through fresh produce
- Complete Behavioral Health offers autism spectrum disorder therapies in southeast Nebraska
- Paid sick leave issue will be on November's ballot
- ‘A different type of health care’: A look inside Nebraska’s only rural emergency hospital
- Nebraska State Fair will require new test for dairy cows amid H5N1 concerns
- Madison County residents raise concerns over wind turbine regulations
- ‘We need it desperately’: A new clinic model could become more common in rural Nebraska
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be on November ballot in Nebraska