Brock N. Meeks is an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience. His articles have moved Congress to call hearings, and have changed the course of public policy. He pioneered the field of online journalism and founded one of the preeminent online publications, CyberWire Dispatch. His articles focusing on the intersection of government and technology made him one of the leading journalistic voices regarding issues such as free speech, privacy, encryption, content regulation, and cyber-rights.
For the last ten years Brock has served as chief Washington correspondent for MSNBC.com covering beats ranging from technology to civil liberties to legislative attempts aimed at taming the Internet. After 9/11 Brock created and developed the homeland security beat for MSNBC.com. His work on national security won him an award in 2005. Many of his stories exposed gaps in homeland security, prompting the government to take corrective action in the wake of his findings. Brock appeared regularly on TV as a correspondent for MSNBC cable and NBC Nightly News. He also served on a special projects team that won several awards, including a ground breaking multi-media project called "Rising from the Ruin." This project chronicled the recovery of two small Gulf Coast communities in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. To report this story team members rotated into and out of the the devastated area for a week at a time, for an entire year.
Before joining MSNBC, Brock was the Washington correspondent for Wired magazine and its online counterpart, HotWired. Brock wrote features for the magazine and produced two columns for HotWired, Muckraker and Campaign Dispatch. The latter column was exclusively dedicated to his coverage of the 1996 Presidential campaign.