Megan O’Matz has been a reporter with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel since April 2000. As a general assignment and government reporter, she wrote on an array of subjects, including failures in Florida’s balloting process that muddled the 2000 Presidential election. Her reporting on the Department of Children & Families led to two of the department’s secretaries leaving office in disgrace. She was named in 2004 to the newspaper investigations team, where she helped uncover fraud in the federal government’s disaster relief program in Miami-Dade County. In 2007, she exposed flaws in Florida’s concealed weapon system, which enabled more than 1,400 people with criminal histories to obtain licenses to carry guns. A graduate of Penn State University, Megan has been a news clerk at the New York Times , and a reporter for States News Service in Washington D.C.; the Pittsburgh Press , the Chicago Tribune and the Morning Call of Allentown , Pa. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 and is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service and First Amendment Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and the Roy W. Howard Award in Public Service Reporting from the Scripps Howard Foundation.