I am a journalist, documentary producer, and contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. I report on medicine and ethics.

 

In 2024, I won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Reporting. You can read the winning article here: The Mother Who Changed. Judges wrote that the award was for my "fair-minded portrait of a family’s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch’s progressive dementia that sensitively probes the mystery of a person’s essential self."

 

My story “What Happened in Room 10?” won a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting in 2021. It is the product of a months-long investigation into the first COVID outbreak in an American nursing home — and, more broadly, the rise of the for-profit nursing home industry in America. The article also won the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Journalism and the MOLLY Prize for Investigative Journalism, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing.

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My 2021 book, The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2021. The New Yorker called it "a remarkably nuanced, empathetic, and well-crafted work of journalism."

 

Previously, I worked as a documentary film correspondent at NBC News. I made short films from across the United States and abroad. And I appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. Before that, I was as a foreign correspondent for VICE News, based in London, and Europe reporter for Maclean's, Canada's largest news magazine. I won a Canada National Magazine Award for my coverage of Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution. In a former life, I was a graduate student of History and Philosophy at Oxford University.

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Today, I live in Toronto with my husband and two sons.

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If you would like to contact me, please email me at kmengelhart@gmail.com.