Writers
Meridian is written by a small permanent staff and a rotating group of contributors. Every byline links to everything that person has published with us.

Dana Whitfield
Senior energy correspondent
Dana covers electricity markets, interconnection policy, and the physical constraints on American growth. She joined Meridian in 2021 after six years at a regional utility desk.
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Elliot Shaw
Contributing writer, Opinion
Elliot is a former legislative counsel who writes on regulation and administrative law.
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Ellis Chen
Technology correspondent
Ellis covers semiconductors, enterprise software and the procurement decisions that quietly set the industry roadmap.
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Marcus Oyelaran
Technology editor
Marcus writes about semiconductors, compute supply chains, and the companies betting against the industry roadmap.
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Nadia Brandt
Politics correspondent
Nadia reports from Washington and eleven statehouses on redistricting, election administration and campaign finance.
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Priya Raghunathan
Business correspondent
Priya reports on consolidation, private equity, and the quiet reshaping of American service industries.
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Tomás Herrera
Economics correspondent
Tomás writes about prices, labour markets and the parts of the economy that people feel before the data shows it.
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