Margaret Coker is the editor-in-chief of The Current, a not-for-profit online news site based in Coastal Georgia. She previously worked for Cox Newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. In that time she covered stories from 32 countries on four continents. She returned home to Savannah in 2019 to launch The Current, to revive an investigative news culture in Coastal Georgia, and to mentor a new generation of journalists in the region.
