Megan Ortiz

Senior editor

Megan Ortiz is a journalism educator who began her teaching career after a distinguished sports writing career at the Houston Chronicle, where she covered the Houston Texans and Houston Rockets. Before joining the Houston Chronicle, she covered the Iowa Hawkeyes for the Des Moines Register. Her bylines have appeared in the Dallas Morning News, Long Island Newsday, Houston Chronicle and Des Moines Register.

Ortiz is the president-elect of Texas Association of Journalism Educators. While teaching at Kingwood Park High, Ortiz has guided students who have won two National Photo Journalist of the Year Awards, one National Writer of the Year and hundreds of other state and national awards.