Megan Basham

New York Times bestselling author Megan Basham is a culture reporter with the Daily Wire, where she contributes regularly to the top-ten news podcast, Morning Wire. For 13 years, she wrote for World Magazine, where she rose from film critic to entertainment editor and cohost of its flagship top-50 news podcast, The World and Everything in It. Her work has also appeared in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, First Things, and National Review, among others.

She has appeared as a commentator on FOX News, MSNBC, BBC, CBN, The Today Show, Newsmax, and NewsNation, as well as numerous regional TV and radio news broadcasts.

She was previously a Novak Journalism Fellow and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. She is the author of Beside Every Successful Man (Penguin Random House, 2008) and Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda (HarperCollins, 2024). She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Brian, and their two daughters.