Meir Rinde is a staff reporter for Billy Penn at WHYY, Philadelphia's public broadcaster. He covers local news and has written about the arts, housing, transportation, elections, science history, health and medicine, and many other topics.

He has reported for the Philadelphia Inquirer, WNYC, NHPR, Shelterforce, NJ Spotlight, Distillations, and Onclive. He was an editor and reporter at the Trenton Times, and a reporter at the Hartford Advocate and the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune. He studied at the Columbia University School of Journalism, Brandeis University and UC Berkeley.

   Email: meir at billypenn.org.