Maggie Grether

About Maggie

Maggie Grether is a reporter interested in documenting how global economic trends impact the lives of individuals. Originally from Pasadena, California, she’s written for local and national outlets across the US. On the economics desk of The Wall Street Journal, she reported top-read features about New York City politics and national homelessness policy. She’s covered legal threats to unaccompanied immigrant children for The Nation, and she’s reported local news across northwest Ohio for The Toledo Blade. She got her start in journalism by covering New Haven’s affordable housing crisis for The Yale Daily News. She was recently named a 2026 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar. 

Maggie is a senior at Yale University, where she studies international history with a focus on 20th-century East Asia. She served as co-editor-in-chief of The New Journal, Yale’s widest circulating news magazine, which, under her tenure, was named Best Ongoing Student Magazine in the Northeast by the Society of Professional Journalists. Maggie is a Yale Journalism Initiative Scholar, and she has reported on in-custody deaths in California jails with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale. She is also a writing tutor at the Yale College Writing Center. 

Maggie is currently writing her history thesis on how the Korean War served as a testing ground for post-WWII international law. The project is inspired by the thousands of families, including her grandmother’s, who were permanently separated by the war.