Melinda Henneberger

Melinda Henneberger is an editorial writer and columnist for the Kansas City Star. In 2019, she was named a Pulitzer finalist for commentary and won the New Leaders Association’s Mike Royko Award for Commentary and Column Writing. She was previously a reporter for the Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday and the New York Times, where she worked for 10 years as a Washington correspondent and Rome bureau chief. She’s an Illinois native, third-generation Cubs fan, graduate of the University of Notre Dame and of the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and a former fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.