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Personal Information Summary
Name	Meg Tirrell
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	November 3, 1984. As of 2025, she is around 41 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Boyfriend	Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
What happened Meg Tirrell?	As of March 2020, Tirrell has been promoted to senior medical and science reporter.
Children / No. of Kids	2
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	White
Nationality	American

Wiki Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Meg Tirrell is an award-winning American journalist and notable senior biotech, pharma, health, and science reporter in the news business. Meg has adhered firmly to a research-focused approach in her profession.
Currently, Meg serves as a senior reporter for CNBC in New York. She has emceed various social and charity events following early success in the TV news industry.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Meg was born on November 3, 1984, in New York City.
Her Twitter feeds reveal that she is a married woman. In 2016, Meg was congratulated by her friends on getting married. She is also a mother. Outside of this, little else is known about her personal life.
In June 2020, she told her Twitter audience that her baby boy would soon start going to the daycare center. Previously in a series of Twitter posts, she had announced her pregnancy.

Early Life and Education :

After graduating from a local high school back in 2002, Meg headed to Wellesley College in 2002. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Music in 2006.
Meg also earned a Master’s Degree (2006-2007) in Journalism from Northwestern University, a private university based in Evanston, Illinois.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Upon graduation, from September 2007 to August 2009, Meg started to work for Bloomberg News as a small-caps, media, and consumer reporter.
In 2009, after a role change, Meg started covering serious stories in the pharmacy, science, and health fields. She served Bloomberg as their Science and Pharma reporter from August 2009 to September 2010.
In September 2010, she had another role change, this time working as the primary Biotechnology reporter. This gig was one of the most enjoyable for Meg to date due to her passion. While covering the biotechnology sector till March 2014, Meg also contributed to Bloomberg Business Week and Bloomberg Television. During her time at Bloomberg, Tirrell reported merger and acquisition stories like Genzyme and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, vital FDA decisions like Vivus, and proxy fights at Forest Labs.
In April 2014, Meg started working at CNBC as a General Assignment Biotech and Pharma reporter. She appeared primarily on CNBC’s Business Day program. Meg also contributed research-based articles to CNBC’s website from their global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
From 2014 to 2020, as a health reporter at CNBC, Meg has reported on the drugs associated with Cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other rare diseases.
In March 2020, Meg was promoted to a Senior Science and Health reporting position at CNBC.

Top Stories :

Unknown to many, Tirrell made surprising drug pricing revelations to the public after thorough research in 2016. The nature of the revelations focused on the impact that politics exerts on some drug manufacturing. In 2014, Meg also revealed the agonizing decision-making that accompanies the compassionate use of unapproved drugs on people.
Some interesting stories covered by Meg include – Why lesser drugs are developed for children, how market failures cause dire drug shortages, the flu shot manufacturing process from egg to pharmacy, genome sequencing, etc.
Over the years, she has tracked massive public health emergencies like Ebola, Zika, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meg reported on the futuristic medical advances of prosthetics in May 2016. She listed the latest innovations that are being put out in prosthetics fields. She informed the audience about contributions by Dr. Justin Sanchez, Project manager of DARPA’S biological technologies office. The discoveries might have seemed Science fiction a few years ago. Meg explained that the next generation of prosthetics connects directly to the brain and has the same motion range as the natural arm. It even had sensors to allow users to feel the pressure. Meg mentioned that these technologies are still in very early stages.
On September 23, 2015, Tirrell dissected the news about a 5,000 % drug price hike in an interview with Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli. The price of Daraprim was raised from an average of $13.50 to $700. Latter, Martin, commonly known as ‘Pharma Bro,’ was convicted on the felony of security fraud and conspiracy.
Meg was awarded the Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Small Newsroom Award in 2017.

Interesting Facts, Social Media and Trivia :

Outside her professional career, Meg is also a gifted musician. She joined the New York City-based Acappella group, The Red States, to perform Adele’s hit number, Rolling in the Deep. Meg was seen singing an impressive vocal solo and was also responsible for the song arrangement. The video was posted on YouTube on June 15, 2011.
Meg had always been interested in public performances and appearances. She has been involved as a keynote speaker in various social and charity events over the years.
Meg is always self-conscious about her sense of conducting herself professionally. She takes special care with her dressing style and wears only clothes from her personal choice of designers.
According to Meg’s Twitter post (January 17, 2018), she undertook her first telemedicine personal experience because she feared the cold that she thought might be the flu. She sighed with relief in a post later that day. Meg says that it was an incredible experience, as her teledoctor brushed the flu suspicion and ensured the Rx preparation within 20 minutes.
On May 10, 2020, Meg posted a converted holiday card on Mother’s day in quarantine from her ‘guys’ (supposedly her sons). She also wished everyone a Happy Mother’s Day. It was rare for Meg to interact with her followers on personal issues. On October 23, 2020, Meg she joked about the lack of wine in her household.

Body Figure / Physical Info

Meg Tirrell Measurements :

Eye Color : Blue
Haircut / Hair Color : Dark Brown
How tall is Meg Tirrell Height : 5′9″
Feet / Legs / Boots / Shoe Size : No confirmed information is available.
Pregnant? : Currently, she is not expecting a baby.
Meg Tirrell Teeth : A few posts on Reddit and some other online forums have commented on her teeth.