- Philip Meyer
Philip Meyer is Knight Chair in Journalism at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He researches in the areas of journalism quality, precision journalism, civic journalism, polling, the newspaper industry, and communications technology.Before becoming a professor in 1981, Meyer was employed in the news and newspaper industry for many years. He spent approximately 28 years as a reporter and then spent several years doing market research.
One of the earliest examples of
computer assisted reporting was in 1967, after riots in Detroit, when Philip Meyer of theDetroit Free Press used a mainframe computer to show that people who had attended college were equally likely to have rioted as were high school dropouts.Meyer has written several books, including "The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age", "Precision Journalism", and "Ethical Journalism: a Guide for Students, Practitioners and Consumers".
= External Links =
* [http://www.unc.edu/~pmeyer/ Official site]
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