Margaret Holcomb is the Senior Correspondent at Bavarian Brainrot, where she leads the publication’s long-form investigative coverage of Helen city government, the White County Board of Commissioners, and the regional zoning apparatus that quietly shapes the daily texture of life in the southern Appalachians.
Before joining Bavarian Brainrot at the publication’s founding, Margaret spent twenty-two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she covered the Georgia statehouse, education policy, and the long, slow-moving stories of how local money becomes local power. Her 2014 series on procurement irregularities in northeast Georgia school districts won the Georgia Press Association’s top investigative honor.
She holds a Master of Science in Journalism from the University of Georgia (1994) and lives outside Helen with her husband Don, two retired hunting dogs, and a small but well-organized collection of public-records receipts.
Margaret’s reporting standard is simple: every claim she files is sourced to a document or to a named human being who said it on the record. She files slowly. She rarely files first. She is, however, almost always right.
