We are excited to announce that Meryl Kornfield is joining the National politics team as a campaign trail reporter to help chronicle the 2024 presidential election.
Meryl comes to this role after an impressive three-year run on the General Assignment team, where she wrote memorable stories about people who were unvaccinated but willing to get the shot, protesters swept up in the mass arrests after George Floyd’s murder and grocery store workers on the front line of the pandemic.
Meryl first joined The Post as an intern in the summer of 2019, when she was tasked with helping the investigative team with the Opioid Files series. Her byline appeared on four stories in the series, including a piece on how the nation’s largest drug companies devised tactics to weaken the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enforcement at the height of the pain pill crisis.
After moving onto the GA team in 2020, she continued to play a key role on the opioids story, scooping details about the largest legal settlement and detailing a horrifying mass fentanyl poisoning as part of The Post’s CartelRx series. Meryl has contributed to other major Post investigations, including the Afghanistan Papers and a project about student health centers. She also wrote about a dispute between neighbors over marijuana smoke, which probed how far the law goes to give us control over the spaces we inhabit.
